Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.
Morris Raphael CohenIt is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views.
Morris Raphael CohenIt has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.
Morris Raphael CohenIf a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.
Morris Raphael Cohen