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Karl Popper : No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude. # Attitude # Reason # Argument

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Blaise Pascal : " There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy. " # Attitude # Reason # Argument

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Georg Hegel : " What is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational. " # Attitude # Reason # Argument

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Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky : " If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen. " # Attitude # Reason # Argument

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Georg Hegel : " To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual. " # Attitude # Reason # Argument

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Thomas Aquinas : " A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational. " # Attitude # Reason # Argument

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Bertrand Russell : " Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. " # Attitude # Reason # Argument

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel : " Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational. " # Attitude # Reason # Argument

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Penn Jillette : " I've always wanted to make the world a more rational place. I'm still working on it. " # Attitude # Reason # Argument

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Reinhold Niebuhr : " Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life. " # Attitude # Reason # Argument

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Oscar Wilde : " One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. " # Attitude # Reason # Argument

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Karl Popper: " No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude." # Attitude # Reason # Argument

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Karl Popper: " The so-called paradox of freedom is the argument that freedom in the sense of absence of any constraining control must lead to very great restraint, since it makes the bully free to enslave the meek. The idea is, in a slightly different form, and with very different tendency, clearly expressed in Plato. Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. — In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal." # Freedom # Philosophers and Philosophy # Truth

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Karl Popper: " Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership." # Leaders and Leadership # Failure # Problems

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Karl Popper: " Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: there will always be some who misunderstand you." # Understanding # Communication # Leaders and Leadership

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Karl Popper: " A principle of induction would be a statement with the help of which we could put inductive inferences into a logically acceptable form. In the eyes of the upholders of inductive logic, a principle of induction is of supreme importance for scientific method: "... this principle", says Reichenbach, "determines the truth of scientific theories. To eliminate it from science would mean nothing less than to deprive science of the power to decide the truth or falsity of its theories. Without it, clearly, science would no longer have the right to distinguish its theories from the fanciful and arbitrary creations of the poet's mind." Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement. Indeed, if there were such a thing as a purely logical principle of induction, there would be no problem of induction; for in this case, all inductive inferences would have to be regarded as purely logical or tautological transformations, just like inferences in inductive logic. Thus the principle of induction must be a synthetic statement; that is, a statement whose negation is not self-contradictory but logically possible. So the question arises why such a principle should be accepted at all, and how we can justify its acceptance on rational grounds." # Science and Scientists # Love # Truth

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Karl Popper: " Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle -- the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative." # Philosophers and Philosophy # Happiness # Politicians and Politics

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Karl Popper: " Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification." # Science and Scientists

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Karl Popper: " Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again." # Theory # Books - Reading # Love

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Karl Popper: " You can choose whatever name you like for the two types of government. I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence "democracy", and the other "tyranny"." # Democracy # Government # Love

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Karl Popper: " Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology. (All that technology may say about ends is whether or not they are compatible with each other or realizable.)" # Despair # Technology # Science and Scientists

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