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Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.
Morris Raphael Cohen
Life
Progress
Achievement
Adventure
Liberalism
Will
Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
Morris Raphael Cohen
Idols
Literature
Past
Philosophy
The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions.
Morris Raphael Cohen
Concern
Interest
The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.
Morris Raphael Cohen
Logic
World
Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.
Morris Raphael Cohen
Forget
Kinship
Literature
Philosophy