Karl Popper (fra “Conjectures and Refutations”):
* There is no law of progress, and everything will depend on ourselves.
* The state is a necessary evil: Its powers are not to be multiplied beyond what is necessary.
* How can we organize our political institutions so that bad or incompetent rulers (whom we should try not to get but whom we so easily might get all the same) cannot do too much damage?
* We have learned to distrust unanimity.
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Kipling:
* All we have of freedom, all we use or know – this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
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Montaigne:
* Filosofien skal udruste mig med våben til at bekæmpe skæbnen (la philosophie, qui me doit mettre les armes à la main pour combatre la fortune).
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Goethe:
* Nur der verdient sich Freiheit wie das Leben der täglich sie erobern muss
Thomas Mann:
* Ånd er livets selvkritik. (Geist ist die Selbstkritik des Lebens).
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José Ortega y Gasset:
* De dyder, vi ikke har, er de vigtigste. (Las virtudes que no tenemos son las que más importan).