"Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks,……" — Morris Raphael Cohen
"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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24 Quotes by Morris Raphael Cohen
Morris Raphael Cohen has 24 quotes on this site.
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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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Whoever coined the term "Buyer Beware" was probably bleeding from the asshole.
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There is a newly coined word in the English language for the moment when the person we're with whips out…
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I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and Hispanically.
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I remember the day we were hanging around the band's commune and Roger came in with the press kit for…
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German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
— Ludwig von Mises
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The beat generation (coined in Playboy)
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The term Hispanic, coined by technomarketing experts and by the designers of political campaigns, homogenizes our cultural diversity (Chicanos, Cubans,…
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It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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.. the word ecology, coined by the German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel (initially as oecology) in 1866. derives from…
— Unknown Author
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Even in Madison's day, the practice of gerrymandering for partisan advantage was familiar. In the late seventeen-eighties, there were claims…
— Jeffrey Toobin
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Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor…
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