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.
JOHN DEWEYMost notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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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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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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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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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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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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