Explore Quotes by John Dewey

As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools

Modern philosophy certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated

By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.

The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself

No system has ever as yet existed which did not in some form involve the exploitation of some human beings for the advantage of others.

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.

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

No man's credit is as good as his money.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

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.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

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.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

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.