Karl Popper Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

  Karl Popper

  Paradise On Earth, Keeping Promises, Kept Promises

  "In Passing: Condolences and Complaints on Death, Dying, and Related Disappointments". Book by Jon Winokur, p. 144, 2005.

• The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.

  Karl Popper

  Heaven, Earth, Hell

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Open Society and its Enemies: Hegel and Marx”, p.252, Routledge

• 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 the past or in the future; it may preach 'back to nature' or 'forward to a world of love and beauty'; but its appeal is always to our emotions rather than to reason. Even with the best intentions of making heaven on earth it only succeeds in making it a hell - that hell which man alone prepares for his fellow-men.

  Karl Popper

  Beautiful, Dream, Attitude

  Karl Raimund Popper (1950). “The Open Society and Its Enemies”

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