Author: Karl Popper
Cited by
- Brian Boyd (1)
- IN: Nabokov's Pale Fire, The Magic of Artistic Discovery (1999) NULL, American
EPIGRAPH: We are discoverers: and discovery is a creative art.
FROM: Conjectures and Refutations, (1963), Book, Austria/ UK
- Eloy Urroz (1)
- IN: The Family Interrupted (2016) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life... A concrete history of mankind, if there were any, would have to be the history of all men. It would have to be the history of all human hopes, struggles, and sufferings. For there is no one man more important than any other. Clearly, this concrete history cannot be written. We must make abstractions, we must neglect, select. But with this we arrive at the many histories...
FROM: The Open Society and Its Enemies, (1945), Book, Austria