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