Flames Quote by Morris Raphael Cohen

“Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.” quote by Morris Raphael Cohen — Download Open image

“Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.”

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

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

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

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

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The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.

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

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

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