Strait-jacket and chain-gang procedures had to be done away with if there was to a chance for growth of individuals in the intellectual springs of freedom without which there is no assurance of genuine and continued normal growth.
By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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.
We only think when we are confronted with problems.
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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.
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
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.
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.
