Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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John Dewey Quotes Click here for John Dewey books "We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as the ideal society. We must base our conception upon societies which actually exist, in order to have any assurance that our ideal is a practicable one." "Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of interests." "It seems almost incredible to us, for example, that things which we know very well, could have escaped recognition in past ages. We incline to account for it by attributing congenital stupidity to our forerunners and by assuming superior native intelligence on our own part. But the explanation is that their modes of life did not call for attention to such facts, but held their minds riveted to other things." "Plato defined a slave as one who accepts from another the purposes which control his conduct. This condition obtains even where there is no slavery in the legal sense." "From a social standpoint, dependence denotes a power rather than a weakness; it involves interdependence. There is always a danger that increased personal independence will decrease the social capacity of an individual. In making him more self-reliant, it may make him more self-sufficient; it may lead to aloofness and indifference. It often makes an individual so insensitive in his relations to others as to develop an illusion of being really able to stand and act alone-an unnamed form of insanity which is responsible for a large part of the remedial suffering in the world." "A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience." "The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education." "Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination." "Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake." "To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness." "Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them." "Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in liberating human intelligence and human sympathy." "We only think when we are confronted with a problem." "Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things." "The development of science has produced an industrial revolution which has brought different peoples in such close contact with one another through colonization and commerce that no matter how some nations may still look down upon others, no country can harbor the illusion that its career is decided wholly within itself." "As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance." "We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts." "Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril." |
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