Top 25 Quotes by Sidney Hook of 31 - Page 2

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

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

Teacher, Fate, Hook

To deny me the right to err is therefore to deny me the right to believe.

Believe, Atheism, Deny

Religious freedom in an open society has the best prospects of flourishing to the extent that it expresses itself as freedom of religious inquiry.

Sidney Hook

Religious, Atheism, Inquiry

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.

Sidney Hook

Betrayal, Cost, Hook

Sidney Hook, Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovskiĭ, Paul Hollander (1987). “Soviet hypocrisy and Western gullibility”

Russell's prose has been compared by T.S. Eliot to that of David Hume's. I would rank it higher, for it had more color, juice, and humor. But to be lucid, exciting and profound in the main body of one's work is a combination of virtues given to few philosophers. Bertrand Russell has achieved immortality by his philosophical writings.

Sidney Hook

Philosophical, Writing, Color

Sidney Hook (1987). “Out of step: an unquiet life in the 20th century”, Harpercollins