Karl Popper Quotes About Decisions

Quotes about: Decisions

• Nature consists of facts and of regularities, and is in itself neither moral nor immoral. It is we who impose our standards upon nature, and who in this way introduce morals into the natural world, in spite the fact that we are part of this world. We are products of nature, but nature has made us together with our power of altering the world, of foreseeing and of planning for the future, and of making far-reaching decisions for which we are morally responsible. Yet, responsibility, decisions, enter the world of nature only with us

  Karl Popper

  Responsibility, Decision, Together

• A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases, by compromise, rather than by violence. He is a man who would rather be unsuccessful in convincing another man by argument than successful in crushing him by force, by intimidation and threats, or even by persuasive propaganda.

  Karl Popper

  Crush, Successful, Men

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.557, Routledge

• The open society is one in which men have learned to be to some extent critical of taboos, and to base decisions on the authority of their own intelligence.

  Karl Popper

  Men, Decision, Authority

  Karl Popper (2012). “The Open Society and its Enemies”, p.590, Routledge

• The moral decisions of others should be treated with respect, as long as such decisions do not conflict with the principle of tolerance.

  Karl Popper

  Long, Decision, Tolerance

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