Morris Raphael Cohen Quotes

To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority. - Morris Raphael Cohen

This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries. - Morris Raphael Cohen

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic. - Morris Raphael Cohen

The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions. - Morris Raphael Cohen

Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist. - Morris Raphael Cohen

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 new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability. - Morris Raphael Cohen

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 good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability. - Morris Raphael Cohen

Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature. - Morris Raphael Cohen

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