47 Quotes by Paul Karl Feyerabend

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

The pygmies, for example, or the Mindoro of the Philippines, do not want equal rights – they just want to be left alone.

A superconscious organism would not be superwise, it would be paralyzed.