Karl Popper Quotes About Fighting

Quotes about: Fighting

• The war of ideas is a Greek invention. It is one of the most important inventions ever made. Indeed, the possibility of fighting with with words and ideas instead of fighting with swords is the very basis of our civilization, and especially of all its legal and parliamentary institutions.

  Karl Popper

  War, Fighting, Civilization

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.501, Routledge

• If you know that things are bound to happen whatever you do, then you may feel free to give up the fight against them.

  Karl Popper

  Giving Up, Fighting, May

  Karl Popper (2012). “The Open Society and Its Enemies”, p.38, Routledge

• 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.

  Karl Popper

  Happiness, Fighting, Inner Peace

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.465, Routledge

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