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Whole Quotes by John Dewey
- Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal.
- To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than another?... Each form…
- Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and inherently significant, the…
- 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 very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this…
- By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
- 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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- A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what… — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle
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- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain… — Karen Armstrong
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two… — David Attenborough
- The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to… — David Attenborough
- The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that… — Chinua Achebe
- We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for… — Margaret Atwood
- You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma… — Margaret Atwood
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden