...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that profound experiences occur when we transition from chaos to a state of peace.
John Dewey's quote highlights the dynamic process of moving from a state of disturbance or conflict to one of harmony. It suggests that the intensity of life is most vividly felt during this transition, emphasizing that our most vital experiences often arise amidst struggle, leading to greater understanding and tranquility once harmony is achieved.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech about finding peace in stressful situations.
Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing of the right social growth. In this way, the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer-in of the true Kingdom of God.
Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.
It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy, and, above all, to give them such shape that the dependencies of the various facts upon one another may be as obvious as possible.
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The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools
It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.
And these things that keep alive on departure know that you praise them; transient, they look to us, the most transient, to be their rescue. They want us to change them completely, in our invisible hearts, into -- O endlessly -- us! Whoever, finally, we may be.
And if one of our instruments breaks, it doesn't matter. _x000D_ We have fallen into the place where everything is music.
[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.
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