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.
Category Archive: John Dewey
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.
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
We only think when we are confronted with problems.
To me faith means not worrying.
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.