“Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.”
Source: Out of step: an unquiet life in the 20th century
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Famous Sidney Hook Quotes
“Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.”
Source: Pragmatism and the tragic sense of life
“Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.”
Source: Sidney Hook on Pragmatism, Democracy, and Freedom: The Essential Essays
“Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.”
“Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.”
Source: Out of step: an unquiet life in the 20th century
Source: Soviet hypocrisy and Western gullibility