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

- Morris Raphael Cohen

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 …

- Morris Raphael Cohen

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…

- Morris Raphael Cohen

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

- Morris Raphael Cohen

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

- Morris Raphael Cohen

Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small v…

- Morris Raphael Cohen

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

- Morris Raphael Cohen

Law must be viewed as a formless mass of isolated decisions.

- Morris Raphael Cohen

Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seekin…

- Morris Raphael Cohen