The Philosopher

Sidney Hook

The face

The background

Nationality:
American
Schools:
Pragmatism, Marxism
Branchs:
Philosophy of history, Philosophy of education, political theory, Ethics
Period:
20th-century philosophy

The synopsis

The works

The quotes

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
Sidney Hook
Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.
Sidney Hook
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
Sidney Hook
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
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.
Sidney Hook
Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.
Sidney Hook
Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.
Sidney Hook
Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.
Sidney Hook
Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
Sidney Hook
To silence criticism is to silence freedom.
Sidney Hook
Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.
Sidney Hook