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- Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised for effectively directed reflection. [Without…
- Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
- The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has been organized into…
- 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…
- Everything which bars freedom and fullness of communication sets up barriers that divide human beings into sets and cliques, into antagonistic sects and factions, and…
- The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no…
- When a school introduces and trains each child of society into membership within such a little community, saturating him with the spirit of service, and…
- ...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.
- 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…
- The good society was, like the good self, a diverse yet harmonious, growing yet unified whole, a fully participatory democracy in which the powers and…
- The routine of custom tends to deaden even scientific inquiry; it stands in the way of discovery and of the active scientific worker. For discovery…
- Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems…
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