Philosophy Quotes by John Dewey

I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social…

— John Dewey

The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of…

— John Dewey

“The lesson for progressive education is that it requires in an urgent degree, a degree more pressing than was incumbent upon former…

— John Dewey

“Professed scientific philosophers have been wont to employ the remoter and refinished products of science in ways which deny, discount or pervert…

— John Dewey

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

— John Dewey

It (modern philosophy) certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically…

— John Dewey

I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.

— John Dewey

Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.

— John Dewey

“Men have gone on to build up vast intellectual schemes, philosophies, and theologies, to prove that ideals are not real as ideals…

— John Dewey

It may be seriously questioned whether the philosophies... which isolate mind and set it over against the world did not have their…

— John Dewey

The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.

— John Dewey

Men have gone on to build up vast intellectual schemes, philosophies, and theologies, to prove that ideals are not real as ideals…

— John Dewey

An empirical philosophy is in any case a kind of intellectual disrobing. We cannot permanently divest ourselves of the intellectual habits we…

— John Dewey

The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or…

— John Dewey

Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.

— John Dewey

Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.

— John Dewey

Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated…

— John Dewey

“I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in…

— John Dewey

It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult…

— John Dewey

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

— John Dewey

In England, philosophers are honoured, respected; they rise to public offices, they are buried with the kings... In France warrants are issued…

— John Dewey

“Intellectual progress usually occurs through sheer abandonment of questions together with both of the alternatives they assume -- an abandonment that results…

— John Dewey

Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.

— John Dewey

“When theories of values do not afford intellectual assistance in framing ideas and beliefs about values that are adequate to direct action,…

— John Dewey

Education Proceeds ultimately from the patterns furnished by institutions, customs, and laws- If the patterns of institutions, customs, and laws are broken…

— John Dewey