Karl R. Popper

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    Karl R. Popper quote. No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude

    No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude

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    Karl R. Popper quote. While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal

    While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal

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    Karl R. Popper quote. 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

    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

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