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.
JOHN DEWEYTo me, faith means not worrying.
More John Dewey Quotes
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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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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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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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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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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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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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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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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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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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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