37 Quotes by Sidney Hook

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

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.

Where an intelligent grasp of principles requires a knowledge of mathematics, its fundamental ideas should be presented in such a way that students carry away the sense of mathematics not only as a tool for the solution of problems but as a study of types of order, system, and language.

It still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs about the existence of God in any recognizable sense continuous with the great systems of the past, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probabil

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.

[A]nti-Semitism was rife in almost all varieties of socialism.

Life has meaning for anyone who takes an interest in it.

If one shoots at a king, one must not miss.

The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.