“The principle of the national state, that is to say, the political demand that the territory of every state should coincide with the territory inhabited by one nation, is by no means so self-evident as it seems to appear to… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“Most of us, it seems, have a strong inclination to accept the peculiarities of our social environment as if they were ‘natural’.” — Karl R. Popper Copy Share
“The empirical basis of objective science has thus nothing ‘absolute’ about it.4 Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share
“Should you ever intend to dull the wits of a young man and to incapacitate his brains for any kind of thought whatever, then… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share
“Historically, all ethics undoubtedly begin with religion; but I do not now deal with historical questions. I do not ask who was the first… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share
“Society and the individual are thus interdependent. The one owes its existence to the other. Society owes its existence to human nature, and especially… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share
“All political ideals, that of making the people happy is perhaps the most dangerous one. It leads invariably to the attempt to impose our… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share
“There is only one further use of violence in political quarrels which I should consider justified. I mean the resistance, once democracy has been… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share
“The fascist appeal to ‘human nature’ is to our passions, to our collectivist mystical needs, to ‘man the unknown’. Adopting Hegel’s words just quoted,… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share
“Instead of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, one should demand, more modestly, the least amount of avoidable suffering for all; and further,… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share
“According to this conception, the ultimate causes of all social changes and political revolutions are not increasing insight into justice; they are to be… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share
“(a) Nationalism, in the form of the historicist idea that the state is the incarnation of the Spirit (or now, of the Blood) of… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share
“We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share
“What we should do, I suggest, is to give up the idea of ultimate sources of knowledge, and admit that all knowledge is human;… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share
“What a monument of human smallness is this idea of the philosopher king. What a contrast between it and the simplicity of humaneness of… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share
