Fernando

“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 espoused what became known as ‘falsificationism’, the doctrine that what we are interested in the sciences is the conditions under which we should reject a proposed law or theory; the proposition that ‘all swans are white’ is decisively refuted by one black swan, no matter how often it has been ‘verified’ by sightings of white swans.”
― Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies

“The book is a new philosophy of politics and of history, and an examination of the principles of democratic reconstruction. It also tries to contribute to an understanding of the totalitarian revolt against civilization, and to show that this is as old as our democratic civilization itself.”
― 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