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Religious Quotes by John Dewey

8 Religious quotes by John Dewey

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The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss…

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One code prevails in the family; another, on the street; a third, in the workshop or store; a fourth, in the religious…

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We are a people of many races, many faiths, creeds, and religions. I do not think that the men who made the…

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The intellectual content of religions has always finally adapted itself to scientific and social conditions after they have become clear.... For this…

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Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

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In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity…

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The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so…

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The struggle for democracy has to be maintained on as many fronts as culture has aspects: political, economic, international, educational, scientific and…

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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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