Sidney Hook Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.”
-- Sidney HookSource : Sidney Hook (1975). “Pragmatism and the tragic sense of life”, Basic Books (AZ)
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“Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.”
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“To silence criticism is to silence freedom.”
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“I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.”
-- Sidney HookSource : Sidney Hook (1987). “Out of step: an unquiet life in the 20th century”, Harpercollins
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“The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them.”
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“Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.”
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“Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.”
-- Sidney HookSource : Sidney Hook (1991). “The Quest for Being”
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“Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.”
-- Sidney HookSource : Sidney Hook (1987). “Out of step: an unquiet life in the 20th century”, Harpercollins
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“No one who accepts the sovereignty of truth can be a foot soldier in a party or movement. He will always find himself out of step.”
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“The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.”
-- Sidney HookSource : Sidney Hook (1978). “The Hero in History: Myth, Power, Or Moral Ideal? : Remarks”
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“Stupidity is sometimes the greatest of historical forces.”
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“The next time anyone asks you "What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?" the correct answer is "What year, please?"”
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“Religious freedom in an open society has the best prospects of flourishing to the extent that it expresses itself as freedom of religious inquiry.”
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“To deny me the right to err is therefore to deny me the right to believe.”
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“Religious tolerance has developed more as a consequence of the impotence of religions to impose their dogmas on each other than as a consequence of spiritual humility in the quest for understanding first and last things.”
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“One of the central assumptions of the concept of democracy, perhaps its most central assumption, is that by and large human beings are better judges of their own interests.... The operating maxim of the democratic ideology is, "Whoever wears the shoe knows best where it pinches.”
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“Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs.”
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“If one shoots at a king, one must not miss.”
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“The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.”
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“Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.”
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“Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.”
-- Sidney HookSource : Sidney Hook (2002). “Sidney Hook on Pragmatism, Democracy, and Freedom: The Essential Essays”, Pyr Books
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“Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.”
-- Sidney HookSource : Sidney Hook (2002). “Sidney Hook on Pragmatism, Democracy, and Freedom: The Essential Essays”, Pyr Books
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“Everyone recognizes a distinction between knowledge and wisdom. . . Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. Since these cannot be separated from the human organism and the social scene, the moral ways of man cannot be understood without knowledge of the ways of things and institutions.”
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“A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out of insensitiveness than out of deliberate intent, whatever increases sensitiveness of perception and understanding humanizes life.”
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“Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.”
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“Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth.”
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“In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.”
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