Draws Quote by Morris Raphael Cohen

Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no…

— Morris Raphael Cohen

By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us to get…

— Morris Raphael Cohen

The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the…

— Morris Raphael Cohen

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

— Morris Raphael Cohen

Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

— Morris Raphael Cohen

It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined…

— Morris Raphael Cohen

The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.

— Morris Raphael Cohen

Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of…

— Morris Raphael Cohen

If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.

— Morris Raphael Cohen

In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it…

— Morris Raphael Cohen

Inertia is the first law of history, as it is of physics.

— Morris Raphael Cohen

A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will…

— Morris Raphael Cohen