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From Quotes by Sidney Hook
- Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth.
- Everyone recognizes a distinction between knowledge and wisdom. . . Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences…
- Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.
- Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.
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