"If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good." ― Morris Raphael Cohen Topic(s): Death More From Morris Raphael Cohen "In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor." "A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy." "Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas – an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives." More In Death "Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain."― Ralph Waldo Emerson "Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet."― George Eliot "Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?"― Plato