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“In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.”

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“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”

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“Empirically, things are poignant, tragic, beautiful, humorous, settled, disturbed, comfortable, annoying, barren, harsh, consoling, splendid, fearful; are such immediately and in their own right…

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A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view…

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Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and…

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A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting…

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The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

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Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those chosen weakens…

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There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts…

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Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come…

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We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

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But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a few sharply…

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Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse…

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Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole…

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I used practically all the money I had available.

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But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.

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There was no mistake in us making abortion legal and available on demand. That was what we call progress. Just like it was no…

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I do worry because it takes all types to make our culture, to make our art. We need it to be available to all.

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So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else…

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The internal peace of every country depends upon the knowledge that force is available to uphold law.

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It is truly amazing that, with much less neuroscientific knowledge available, Hayek's model comes closer, in some respects, to being neurophysiologically verifiable than those…

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