#sidney hook

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability." – Sidney Hook

[justwatchmyeyes]

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

[waiting-eyez]

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

(Sidney Hook)

[rhp162]

[arcticdementor]

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, “Soviet hypocrisy and Western gullibility”

[philosophyquotes]

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

Sidney Hook

[quafaie]

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

Sidney Hook

[finita--la--commedia]

lying on “mattress graves.”

Sidney Hook, referring to the dying people in hospitals, as quoted by Christopher Hitchens, in “Mortality“ Original: “ … the lives of those whose days and nights are spent on mattress graves of pain.” ( “In Defense of Voluntary Euthanasia”, Sidney Hook )