Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
From Morris Raphael Cohen
If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.
Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions.
Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.
If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.
Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.
The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.
To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority.
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.
Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.
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