We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.
One can't love humanity. One can only love people.
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Graham Greene
Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.
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Stephen King
People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent.
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Jostein Gaarder
Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.
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Ray Bradbury
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Graham Greene
More Quotes By Karl R. Popper
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
Aestheticism and radicalism must lead us to jettison reason, and to replace it by a desperate hope for political miracles. This irrational attitude which springs from intoxication with dreams of a beautiful world is what I call Romanticism. It may seek its heavenly city in...
Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it
