Paul Karl Feyerabend Quotes

#1. Progress has always been achieved by probing well-entrenched and well-founded forms of life with unpopular and unfounded values. This is how man gradually freed himself from fear and from the tyranny of unexamined systems.

Paul Karl Feyerabend

#2. Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.

Paul Karl Feyerabend

#3. An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth, Honesty, Justice and so on).

Paul Karl Feyerabend

#4. The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes.

Paul Karl Feyerabend

#5. The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic religious institution.

Paul Karl Feyerabend

#6. Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives.

Paul Karl Feyerabend

#7. All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards.

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#8. The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.

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#9. We need a dream-world in order to discover the features of the real world we think we inhabit.

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#10. Love of Truth is one of the strongest motives for replacing what really happens by a streamlined account or, to express it in a less polite manner
love of truth is one of the strongest motives for deceiving oneself and others.

Paul Karl Feyerabend

#11. Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress

Paul Karl Feyerabend