Hunger not to have, but to be.
JOHN DEWEYNothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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I believe that the school must represent life – life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the playground.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Hear you don’t believe I know enough to hold office. I wish you to understand that I am thinking about something or other most of the time.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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The conception that growth and progress are just approximations to a final unchanging goal is the last infirmity of the mind in its transition from a static to a dynamic understanding of life.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I’m an atheist.
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Reflection involves not simply a sequence of ideas, but a consequence – a consecutive ordering in such a way that each determines the next as its proper outcome, while each in turn leans back on its predecessors.
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The ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily possible.
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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.
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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.
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