The Poverty
of Historicism.
"How could we arrest scientific and industrial progress?
By closing down, or by controlling, laboratories for research, by
suppressing or controlling scientific periodicals . . ., by
suppressing Universities . . . , by suppressing books, the
printing press, writing, and, in the end, speaking."1a
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The Open Society
and Its Enemies.
"In our own time, Hegel's hysterical historicism is still the
fertilizer to which modern totalitarianism owes its
rapid growth. . .
Thus the formula of the fascist brew is in all countries
the same: Hegel plus a dash of nineteenth-century materialism (especially
Darwinism . . . )."2a
HEGEL
CASSIRER
"Money . . . becomes dangerous only if it can buy
power, either directly, or by enslaving the economically
weak who must sell themselves in order to live."2b
" . . . [T]he history of power politics is nothing but the
history of international crime and mass murder . . .
"2c*
GANDHI
"The fact
that a statement is true may sometimes help to explain why it
appears to us as self-evident. This is the case with '2+2=4' .
. . But the opposite is clearly not the case. The fact that
a sentence appears to some or even to all of us to be 'self-evident' . . . is
no reason why it should be true."1d
ARISTOTLE
DESCARTES
PASCAL
BERKELEY
VOLTAIRE
JAMES SANTAYANA
RUSSELL
ORWELL
DRUCKER
PENROSE
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*
Italics in the original.
1 Karl
R. Popper (1902-1994). The Poverty of Historicism.
Karl Raimund Popper, 1957, 1960, 1961. London, UK: Routledge,
1994.
a The Institutional Theory of Progress, at 154.
2 Karl
R. Popper.
The Open Society and Its Enemies.
Volume II: The High Tide
of Prophecy: Hegel, Marx, and the Aftermath. Fifth ed. (revised). Karl
Raimund Popper, 1962, 1966. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press.
a Hegel and the New Tribalism, at 59 and 61.
b The Legal and the Social System, at 128.
c Has History Any Meaning?, at 270.
d Chapter 11: The Aristotelian Roots of
Hegelianism, Note 42, at 291.
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