Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
From Sidney Hook
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.
To silence criticism is to silence freedom.
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.
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.
Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.
Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.
Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.
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