“Holding the mind to a subject is like holding a ship to its course; it implies constant change of place combined with unity of direction.”

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.

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.

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.

Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.

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.

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.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.

Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.

The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.

Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.

We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.

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.

The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.