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Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to…

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Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that…
By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us…
All logic texts are divided into two parts. In the first part, on deductible logic, the fallacies are explained; in the second…
A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes…
Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.
Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the…
If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.
Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.
It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and…
Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober…
Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions.

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Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. — Russell Baker
The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop… — Zygmunt Bauman
Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists… — Thomas Carlyle
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. — Henri Frederic Amiel
I know I'm not a man-about that much I'm very clear, and I've come to the conclusion that I'm probably not a… — Kate Bornstein
The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change. — Pearl S. Buck
In your city faded off the brown, NINO. She insists she got more class, WE KNOW. — Drake
The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures… — Susan Sontag
The man who insists he as good as anybody, believes he is better. — E. W. Howe
Man does not limit himself to seeing; he thinks and insists on learning the meaning of phenomena whose existence has been revealed… — Claude Bernard
Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight… — Mahatma Gandhi
There is nothing which Nature so clearly reveals, and upon which science so strongly insists, as the universal reign of law, absolute,… — Joseph LeConte

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