Quotes by Morris Raphael Cohen

Morris Raphael Cohen

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.

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Sympathy

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

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Philosophy

All logic texts are divided into two parts. In the first part, on deductible logic, the fallacies are explained; in the second part, on inductive logic, they are committed.

Firsts

Intelligence

Two

By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us to get a determinate picture of the existing world. We must eliminate some of the conflicting possibilities, and this can be brought about only by experiment and observation.

Conflict

Our World

Science

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 will be destroyed.

Belief

Conservatism

Value Of Life

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

Essence

Religion

Transcendentalism

If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.

Court

Philosophic

Theory

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

Claims

Evil

Ifs

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

Firsts

History

Law

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 so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.

Philosopher

Philosophy

Two

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Quotes by Morris Raphael Cohen

Morris Raphael Cohen

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.

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

All logic texts are divided into two parts. In the first part, on deductible logic, the fallacies are explained; in the second part, on inductive logic, they are committed.

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 will be destroyed.

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

If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

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

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 so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.

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