"There is no god and there is no……" — John Dewey
"There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is dead and buried. There is no room for fixed and natural law or permanent moral absolutes."
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John Dewey
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205 Quotes by John Dewey
John Dewey has 205 quotes on this site.
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
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There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with…
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Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised…
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Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power…
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The great waste comes from [the child's] inability to utilize the experience he gets outside of school in any complete…
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I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social…
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I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that…
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I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The…
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I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.
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The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully…
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Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
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Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.
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There are no absolutes in golf. Golf is such an individual game, and no two people swing alike.
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All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.
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The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes…
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...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe,…
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I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work…
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Doing the right thing at all costs is an absolute, and only a sith deals in absolutes.
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The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded…
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Meaning can only be understood in relation to its environment. Therefore, the words only make full sense in context... There…
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There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that…
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God reveals to His prophets that there are moral absolutes. Sin will always be sin. Disobedience to the Lord’s commandments…
— L. Tom Perry
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Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it…
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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