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Sidney Hook Quotes

American - Philosopher | December 20, 1902 - July 12, 1989

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

Education Heart Teacher Teachers Own

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

Limits Tolerance Always Cannot

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

Socialism Capitalism Literature Hopes

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

Ignorance Protect Idealism Alas Does

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

Failure Teacher Teachers Students

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

Freedom Silence Criticism

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

Opponent Answer May Motives Even

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

Nature Wisdom Knowledge Values Kind

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

Value Philosophy Survey Existence

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Fear Past Death Present Tyranny

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.

Life Worth Person Alive Say Living

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