Fernando

“The book offers an explanatory hypothesis for the persistent hostility to the open society. Totalitarian ideologies are interpreted as reactions to what is described as the strain of civilization, or the sense of drift which is associated with the transition from the closed tribal societies of the past to the individualistic civilization that originated in Athens in the fifth century B.C.”
― Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies

“Like many others of his generation, he came to suspect that sustaining a lively and innovative economic system might place more constraints on the pursuit of equality than he had once thought.”
― Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies

“Heraclitean philosophy one of the less commendable characteristics of historicism manifests itself, namely, an over-emphasis upon change, combined with the complementary belief in an inexorable and immutable law of destiny.”
― Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies

“Popper was already working towards his ‘fallibilist’ view that theories can never be proved, although they can be decisively disproved—but it had survived a severe test, and had emerged as a theory worth embracing.”
― Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies