It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.
Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.
Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.
Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.
Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future.
Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but one road to it.
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
One lives with so many bad deeds on one’s conscience and some good intentions in one’s heart.
Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
No man’s credit is as good as his money.
By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end.