"This open eye for possible alternatives which need……" — Morris Raphael Cohen
"This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries."
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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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If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.
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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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