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Conditions Quotes by John Dewey
- Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to conditions of life.
- Man's home is nature; his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions. Separated from such conditions they become empty dreams and idle…
- What, after all, is the public under present conditions? What are the reasons for its eclipse? What hinders it from finding and identifying itself? By…
- No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can be anything but…
- The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine…
- No thought, no idea, can possibly be conveyed as an idea from one person to another. When it is told it is to the one…
- Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of…
- The intellectual content of religions has always finally adapted itself to scientific and social conditions after they have become clear.... For this reason I do…
More Conditions Quotes
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum… — Karen Armstrong
- We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're… — Margaret Atwood
- Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in… — Roger Babson
- You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is… — Bernard Baruch
- It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does… — Saint Basil
- Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul. — Charles Baudelaire
- Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily… — Jane Addams
- As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage… — John Desmond Bernal
- One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to Mother Nature… — Annie Besant