A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.
Inertia is the first law of history, as it is of physics. - Morris Raphael Cohen
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
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 …
The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt. - Morris Raphael Cohen
The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.
Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims. - Morris Raphael Cohen
Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
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
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…
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
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…
Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life. - Morris Raphael Cohen
Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.
Law must be viewed as a formless mass of isolated decisions. - Morris Raphael Cohen
Law must be viewed as a formless mass of isolated decisions.
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
Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seekin…
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