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To insist on racial divisions, on racial differences, in an already divided people, is to place obstacles in the way of public and individual happiness, which can only be obtained by bringing people together as a nation  (Which Quotes) Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright  (Which Quotes) By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction  (Which Quotes) Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not  (Which Quotes) Particularly it is true that a society which not only changes but which has the ideal of such change as will improve it, will have different standards and methods of education from one which aims simply at the perpetuation of its own customs  (Which Quotes) An education could be given which would sift individuals, discovering what they were good for, and supplying a method of assigning each to the work in life for which his nature fits him  (Which Quotes) The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement  (Which Quotes) But when we look at the facts which the term denotes instead of confining our attention to its intrinsic connotation, we find not unity, but a plurality of societies, good and bad  (Which Quotes) Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake  (Which Quotes) Partiality is, as we have seen, an accompaniment of the existence of interest, since this means sharing, partaking, taking sides in some movement. All the more reason, therefore, for an attitude of mind which actively welcomes suggestions and relevant information from all sides  (Which Quotes) The difference between play and what is regarded as serious employment should be not a difference between the presence and absence of imagination, but a difference in the materials with which imagination is occupied  (Which Quotes) The educative value of manual activities and of laboratory exercises, as well as of play, depends upon the extent in which they aid in bringing about a sensing of the meaning of what is going on. In effect, if not in name, they are dramatizations  (Which Quotes) The problem of education in a democratic society is to do away with... Dualism and to construct a course of studies which makes thought a guide of free practice for all and which makes leisure a reward of accepting responsibility for service, rather than a state of exemption from it  (Which Quotes) The intellect is at home in that which is fixed only because it is done and over with, for intellect is itself just as much a deposit of past life as is the matter to which it is congenial. Intuition alone articulates in the forward thrust of life and alone lays hold of reality  (Which Quotes) But the individual butterfly or Earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the occurrence that is explained, not the thing itself  (Which Quotes) The mystery is that the world is at it is a mystery that is the source of all joy and all sorrow, of all hope and fear, and the source of development both creative and degenerative. The contingency of all into which time enters is the source of pathos, comedy, and tragedy  (Which Quotes) Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. We must purposely be kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart which goes out of itself gets large and full. This is the great secret of the inner life. We do ourselves the most good doing something for others  (Which Quotes) Let us labor for that larger and larger comprehension of truth, that more and more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments  (Which Quotes) Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust  (Which Quotes) How often our bosom swells and our temples throb to a thought which proves itself not to be worth anything but for the exaltation we feel while the swelling and throbbing are going on, which after all is something  (Which Quotes) Remembrance of hopes that were silly has an especial tenderness, for much of their silliness came from a thoughtless credulity which we would be glad to have back again  (Which Quotes) Twenty is in hot haste to become a year older and cast its first vote, which Forty will know was cast like the legendary pearls  (Which Quotes) It is the honest lies we tell - statements factually correct and essentially deceiving - which debauch our manhood and stunt our growth  (Which Quotes) A soul which is truly in earnest is not above disabling the body to discourage dangerous competition  (Which Quotes) Expletives serve opinions well which are not sure enough of themselves to risk expression in restrained language  (Which Quotes) When you think of the silly things people have said to you which have stopped you from saying the same silly things, you simply can't do justice to your gratitude  (Which Quotes) We fall short when we ascribe all the modes of happiness to walking in paths of rectitude. There are joys which only tramps and thieves know  (Which Quotes) At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art  (Which Quotes) When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wrong  (Which Quotes) The angler forgets most of the fish he catches, but he does not forget the streams and lakes in which they are caught  (Which Quotes)
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