47 Quotes by Paul Karl Feyerabend

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

Most popular accounts of science and many philosophical analyses are therefor chimeras, pure and simple. They are distorted and misleading as a history of art which regards paintings as natural phenomena of a special kind without ever mentioning the individuals lingering in their neighborhood when they first appear.

The only absolute truth is that there are no absolute truths.

My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is, rather, to convince the reader that all methodologies, even the most obvious ones, have their limits.

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.

Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise...

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

Not only are facts and theories in constant disharmony, they are never as neatly separated as everyone makes them out to be.

Rational discourse is only one way of presenting and examining an issue and by no means the best. Our new intellectuals are not aware of its limitations and of the nature of the things outside.