"We cannot think of ourselves save as to……" — John Dewey
"We cannot think of ourselves save as to some extent social being. Hence, we cannot separate the idea of ourselves and our own good from our idea of others and their good."
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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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More Cannot Separate Quotes
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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
— Albert Camus
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The thing that's important is not something called design; it's how you live, its life itself. Design really comes from…
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To be worthy of the name, an experimenter must be at once theorist and practitioner. While he must completely master…
— Claude Bernard
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We cannot separate our lives from the Eucharist; the moment we do, something breaks. People ask, 'Where do the sisters…
— Mother Teresa
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I have been through a lot and have suffered a great deal. But I have had lots of happy moments,…
— Jackie Kennedy
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Satan and all his agents, with all their combined strength and subtilty, cannot separate one soul from Christ.
— Robert Shaw
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The river moves from land to water to land, in and out of organisms, reminding us what native peoples have…
— Lynn Culbreath Noel
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In rural areas of America, there is a growing increase in poverty, homelessness and hunger. You cannot separate these factors…
— Blanche Lincoln
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Turtles remind us that the way to heaven is through the earth. In Mother Earth is all that we need.…
— Ted Andrews
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You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.
— Richard Selzer
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We cannot separate our lives from time. Why is it that we are so extravagant, so thoughtless, in our waste…
— Orison Swett Marden
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We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.
— John Perry Barlow
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