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Existence Quotes by John Dewey

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Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits…

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In fact, the human young are so immature that if they were left to themselves without the guidance and succor of others,…

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The breakdown of Plato's philosophy is made apparent in the fact that he could not trust to gradual improvements in education to…

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While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act…

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Just because life signifies not bare passive existence (supposing there is such a thing), but a way of acting, environment or medium…

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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…

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“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”

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“Empirically, things are poignant, tragic, beautiful, humorous, settled, disturbed, comfortable, annoying, barren, harsh, consoling, splendid, fearful; are such immediately and in their own right…

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A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view…

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Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and…

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A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting…

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The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

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Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those chosen weakens…

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There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts…

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Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come…

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We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

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But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a few sharply…

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Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse…

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