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“And this led Schlick to formulate a succinct moral principle: “Sei glücksbereit! ” or, rendered literally in English, “Be ready for happiness!” The spirit of the remark, however, is perhaps more accurately caught by the less compact phrase “Always be ready to give happiness a chance!”
― Karl Sigmund, Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science

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― Karl Sigmund, Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science

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“Popper wrote that it ought to be seen as a mark of respect that he had devoted most of his first book to criticizing the Vienna Circle. “The Vienna Circle,” he added, by way of obituary, “was an admirable institution. Indeed, it was a unique seminar of philosophers working in close cooperation with first-rate mathematicians and scientists. Its dissolution was a most serious loss.” It was a body blow not only to philosophy but also, it might be added, to the town of Vienna.”
― Karl Sigmund, Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science

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“The piecemeal reformer will seek to address the most urgent evils of society instead of aiming to achieve the greatest ultimate good, and this may look like a verbal quibble but Popper argued that it is the difference between a reasonable method of improving the lot of man, and a method which may easily lead to an intolerable increase in human suffering.
The case for utopian engineering runs like this: to act rationally we need to have an aim (an end), and then actions can be classified as rational if they are consistent with that end. By this logic, political actions are rational if they pursue the final end that has been set for the reform of the state. In that way, actions are driven by our ultimate political ends.”
― Rafe Champion, Popper: The Champion Guides

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“This term serves to contrast our worldview with philosophy in its usual sense, as a doctrine about the world that claims to stand side by side with the scientific disciplines, or possibly even above them. In our opinion, anything that can be sensibly said at all is a proposition of science, and doing philosophy just means examining critically the propositions of science to check whether they are or are not pseudo-propositions (that is, whether they really have the clarity and significance ascribed to them by the practitioners of the science in question); and it means, further, exposing as pseudo-propositions those propositions that lay claim to another type, and a higher degree, of significance than the propositions of science.”
― Karl Sigmund, Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science

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