Sidney Hook Quotes About Hook

Quotes about: Hook

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

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  Tolerance, Hook, Limits

  Sidney Hook (1975). “Pragmatism and the tragic sense of life”, Basic Books (AZ)

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

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  Inspirational, Death, Past

  Sidney Hook (2002). “Sidney Hook on Pragmatism, Democracy, and Freedom: The Essential Essays”, Pyr Books

• 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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  Judging, Society, Liberty

  Sidney Hook (1987). “Out of step: an unquiet life in the 20th century”, Harpercollins

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

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  Teacher, Fate, Hook

• 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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  Betrayal, Cost, Hook

  Sidney Hook, Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovskiĭ, Paul Hollander (1987). “Soviet hypocrisy and Western gullibility”

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

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  Philosophy, Hook, Surveys

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

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  Ignorance, Doe, Hook

  Sidney Hook (1987). “Out of step: an unquiet life in the 20th century”, Harpercollins

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