The future of religion is connected with the possibility of developing a faith in the possibilities of human experience and human relationships that will create a vital sense of the solidarity of human interests and inspire action to make that sense a reality.
An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force.
Thought is impossible without words.
Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.
The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or propaganda.
Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself.
Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.
But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the occurrence that is explained, not the thing itself.
Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to conditions of life.
Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.
I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.
Time with his old flail Beat me full sore; Till: Hold, I cried, I’ll stand no more. Then I heard a wail And looking spied How love’s little bow Had laid time low.
One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.
The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt.
The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.
Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.
Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such thing as liberty in general; liberty, so to speak, at large.
Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing of the right social growth. In this way, the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer-in of the true Kingdom of God.
Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits of doing, thinking, and feeling from the older to the younger.