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"The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic."
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Explore more quotes by Morris Raphael Cohen
"To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority."
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"Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols."
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"It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views."
Act
"In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor."
Science
"Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist."
Literature
"If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again."
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"If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good."
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"Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions."
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"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."
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"The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic."
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