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World Quotes by Karl Popper
- The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable, even if they…
- Man, some modern philosophers tell us, is alienated from his world: he is a stranger and afraid in a world he never made. Perhaps he…
- The belief in a political Utopia is especially dangerous. This is possibly connected with the fact that the search for a better world, like the…
- Do not allow your dreams of a beautiful world to lure you away from the claims of men who suffer here and now. Our fellow…
- Is the world ruled by strict laws or not? This question I regard as metaphysical. The laws we find are always hypotheses; which means that…
- There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the…
- For myself, I am interested in science and in philosophy only because I want to learn something about the riddle of the world in which…
- Nature consists of facts and of regularities, and is in itself neither moral nor immoral. It is we who impose our standards upon nature, and…
- It is complete nihilism to propose laying down arms in a world where atom bombs are around. It is very simple: there is no way…
- The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we…
- Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as…
- The metaphysical doctrine of determinism simply asserts that all events in this world are fixed, or unalterable, or predetermined. It does not assert that they…
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach