Sidney Hook Quotes

• 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

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  Tags in Capitalism

• Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

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  Topics in Knowledge, Wisdom

• Tolerance always has limits – it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

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  Tags in Limits, Tolerance

• To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

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  Tags in Freedom, Silence

• 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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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Living, Worth

• Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

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  Tags in Students, Teachers

• Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

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  Tags in Philosophy, Existence

• Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

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  Tags in Ignorance, Idealism

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Capitalism

• 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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  Topics in Education

  Tags in Teachers

• Before impugning an opponent’s motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Motives

• Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

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  Topics in Death, Fear

Sidney Hook (12)

Birth:	20th December, 1902
Death:	12th July, 1989
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Philosopher

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