Sidney Hook

Philosopher

1902-12-20

Quotes by Sidney Hook

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

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

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• 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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• Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs.

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