Morris Raphael Cohen Quotes

Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 20 quotes by Morris Raphael Cohen Morris Raphael Cohen (July 25, 1880 – January 28, 1947) was an American philosopher, lawyer, and legal scholar who united pragmatism with logical positivism and linguistic analysis. He was father to Felix S. Cohen. Read full biography of Morris Raphael Cohen → 1 2 Ctrl → Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions... → 0 The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the... → 0 Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist. 0 To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority. 0 Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims. 0 If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good. 0 Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions. 0 Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life... → 0 Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the... → 0 Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the... → 0 In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be... → 0 If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again. 0 It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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20 quotes by Morris Raphael Cohen