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François de La Rochefoucauld
“There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.”
Francois La Rochefoucauld

Karl Popper
“Every time we proceed to explain some conjectural law or theory by a new conjectural theory of a higher degree of universality, we are discovering more about the world, trying to penetrate deeper into its secrets. And every time we succeed in falsifying a theory of this kind, we make an important new discovery. For these falsifications are most important. They teach us the unexpected; and they reassure us that, although our theories are made by ourselves, although they are our own inventions, they are none the less genuine assertions about the world; for they can clash with something we never made.”
Karl Popper, Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach

Voltaire
“What is tolerance? It is a necessary consequence of humanity. We are all fallible, let us then pardon each other's follies. This is the first principle of natural right.”
Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

Karl Popper
“Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.”
Karl Popper

François de La Rochefoucauld
“The intellect is always fooled by the heart.”
La Rochefoucauld

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