SaturdayDec 21, 2024
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Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.
Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.
Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need.
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
We only think when we are confronted with a problem.
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness.
The future of religion is connected with the possibility of developing a faith in the possibilities of human experience and human relationships that will create a vital sense of the solidarity of human interests and inspire action to make that sense a reality.
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all its children.
The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.
Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the courage needed to acknowledge the unpleasant consequences of one's past and present acts.
Education is a social process ... education is growth ... education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheep like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
To me faith means not worrying.
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