The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
JOHN DEWEYThe 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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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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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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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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To me faith means not worrying.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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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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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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