You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.
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It is often asserted that discussion is only possible between people who have a common language and accept common basic assumptions. I think that this is a mistake. All that is needed is a readiness to learn from one's partner in the discussion, which includes a genuine wish to understand what he intends to say. If this readiness is there, the discussion wrighteous stupidityill be the more fruitful the more the partner's backgrounds differ.Karl Raimund Popper
Why do I think that we, the intellectuals, are able to help Simply because we, the intellectuals, have done the most terrible harm for thousands of years. Mass murder in the name of an idea, a doctrine, a theory, a religion that is all 'our' doing, 'our' invention the invention of the intellectuals. If only we would stop setting man against man often with the best intentions much would be gained. Nobody can say that it is impossible for us to stop doing this.
Karl Raimund Popper
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 men have a claim to our help no generation must be sacrificed for the sake of future generations.
Karl Raimund Popper
We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell.
Karl Raimund Popper
Before we as individuals are even conscious of our existence we have been profoundly influenced for a considerable time (since before birth) by our relationship to other individuals who have complicated histories, and are members of a society which has an infinitely more complicated and longer history than they do (and are members of it at a particular time and place in that history) and by the time we are able to make conscious choices we are already making use of categories in a language which has reached a particular degree of development through the lives of countless generations of human beings before us.... 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.
Karl Raimund Popper
Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement....
Karl Raimund Popper
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