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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 (John Dewey Quotes)
The mystery is that the world is at it is a mystery that is the source of all joy and all sorrow, of all hope and fear, and the source of development both creative and degenerative. The contingency of all into which time enters is the source of pathos, comedy, and tragedy (John Dewey Quotes)
Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry (John Dewey Quotes)
We have lost confidence in reason because we have learned that man is chiefly a creature of habit and emotion (John Dewey Quotes)
Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things (John Dewey Quotes)
Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail (John Dewey Quotes)
Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import (John Dewey Quotes)
To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo (John Dewey Quotes)
Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other (John Dewey Quotes)
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking (John Dewey Quotes)
Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal (John Dewey Quotes)
We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience (John Dewey Quotes)
Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state (John Dewey Quotes)
Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society (John Dewey Quotes)
One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching (John Dewey Quotes)
I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform (John Dewey Quotes)
It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children (John Dewey Quotes)
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 (John Dewey Quotes)
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 (John Dewey Quotes)
Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life (John Dewey Quotes)
Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself (John Dewey Quotes)
The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or propaganda (John Dewey Quotes)
... the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life (John Dewey Quotes)
Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality (John Dewey Quotes)
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education (John Dewey Quotes)
You cannot teach today the same way you did yesterday to prepare students for tomorrow (John Dewey Quotes)
Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife (John Dewey Quotes)
Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material (John Dewey Quotes)
The routine of custom tends to deaden even scientific inquiry; it stands in the way of discovery and of the active scientific worker. For discovery and inquiry are synonymous as an occupation. Science is a pursuit, not a coming into possession of the immutable; new theories as points of view are more prized than discoveries that quantitatively increase the store on hand (John Dewey Quotes)
It is not truly realistic or scientific to take short views, to sacrifice the future to immediate pressure, to ignore facts and forces that are disagreeable and to magnify the enduring quality of whatever falls in with immediate desire. It is false that the evils of the situation arise from absence of ideals; they spring from wrong ideals (John Dewey Quotes)