“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 Environment Copy Share Image
“The empirical basis of objective science has thus nothing ‘absolute’ about it.4 Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“Should you ever intend to dull the wits of a young man and to incapacitate his brains for any kind of thought… — Karl R. Popper Young man Copy Share Image
“Historically, all ethics undoubtedly begin with religion; but I do not now deal with historical questions. I do not ask who was… — Karl R. Popper Christian ethics Copy Share Image
“Society and the individual are thus interdependent. The one owes its existence to the other. Society owes its existence to human nature,… — Karl R. Popper Community Copy Share Image
“All political ideals, that of making the people happy is perhaps the most dangerous one. It leads invariably to the attempt to… — Karl R. Popper Freedom Copy Share Image
“There is only one further use of violence in political quarrels which I should consider justified. I mean the resistance, once democracy… — Karl R. Popper Democracy Copy Share Image
“The fascist appeal to ‘human nature’ is to our passions, to our collectivist mystical needs, to ‘man the unknown’. Adopting Hegel’s words… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“Instead of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, one should demand, more modestly, the least amount of avoidable suffering for all;… — Karl R. Popper Happiness Copy Share Image
“According to this conception, the ultimate causes of all social changes and political revolutions are not increasing insight into justice; they are… — Karl R. Popper Change Copy Share Image
“(a) Nationalism, in the form of the historicist idea that the state is the incarnation of the Spirit (or now, of the… — Karl R. Popper Great man Copy Share Image
“We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive… — Karl R. Popper Acts of violence Copy Share Image
“What we should do, I suggest, is to give up the idea of ultimate sources of knowledge, and admit that all knowledge… — Karl R. Popper Dreams Copy Share Image
“What a monument of human smallness is this idea of the philosopher king. What a contrast between it and the simplicity of… — Karl R. Popper Nature of man Copy Share Image
“First, it must be admitted that certain forms of behaviour may be described as more ‘natural’ than other forms; for instance, going… — Karl R. Popper Habits Copy Share Image
“There is no law of progress, and everything will depend on ourselves. But the actual situation is briefly and fairly summed up… — Karl R. Popper Children Copy Share Image
“I am not in all cases and under all circumstances against a violent revolution. I believe with some medieval and Renaissance Christian… — Karl R. Popper Revolution Copy Share Image
“The derivation of the historical law of increasing misery is thus invalid. All that remains is a moving description of the misery… — Karl R. Popper History Copy Share Image
“Democracy and freedom do not guarantee the millennium. No, we do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that.… — Karl R. Popper Freedom Copy Share Image
“the alleged clash between freedom and security, that is, a security guaranteed by the state, turns out to be a chimera. For… — Karl R. Popper Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“It has been indicated above that because of its self-sufficiency, the ideal state appears to Plato as the perfect individual, and the… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“The way of science is paved with discarded theories which were once declared self-evident;” — Karl R. Popper Science Copy Share Image
“Plato summarizes his reply to equalitarianism in the formula: ‘Equal treatment of unequals must beget inequity’20; and this was developed by Aristotle… — Karl R. Popper Equal treatment Copy Share Image
“The belief that science proceeds from observation to theory is still so widely and so firmly held that my denial of it… — Karl R. Popper Faith Copy Share Image
