Karl Popper

[Buetje]

He says:

"The important thing is the socratic insight that we nearly know nothing. Or how Socrates says "I know that I know nothing"."

[Arlekean]

Thank you for the translation.

[LulieTanett]

Exact translation:

"The important thing is the Socratic insight that we know very little. Or, as Socrates says: [we] know nothing. He says -- more or less -- in short -- 'I know that I know nothing -- and [I] hardly [even know] that'."

("Nearly know nothing" is different from "know very little" -- that could mean that we know a lot but might lose it, or soon we'll know nothing, or something. But Popper actually meant that all our vast knowledge is actually very little in the scheme of things.)

[TheFamousEccles]

My German is very rusty - do you know of a translation of this? All I can piece together is he's saying that the most important [thing] is Socratic somethingorother, of which we don't hear Socrates speak. Or something along those lines.