Choice is the declaration by self that a certain ideal of self shall be realized.
Men’s fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake.
When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result.
The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.
If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.
As a child lives today, he will live tomorrow.
Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.
The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth.
You can teach students to develop the ability to think reflectively, and you can help them understand what this means, but if they are not inclined to do so they never will.
It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy, and, above all, to give them such shape that the dependencies of the various facts upon one another may be as obvious as possible.
Always make the other person feel important.
The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine conditions he begins to pretend-to make claims for which there is no justification, and to trust to luck and to ability to impose upon others-to “bluff.”
Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the courage needed to acknowledge the unpleasant consequences of one’s past and present acts.
No system has ever as yet existed which did not in some form involve the exploitation of some human beings for the advantage of others.
If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.
The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools.
Modern philosophy certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated.
By reading the characteristic features of any man’s castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.
The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself.
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.