The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.

Any experience, however, trivial in its first appearance, is capable of assuming an indefinite richness of significance by extending its range of perceived connections.

Historically the great movements for human liberation have always been movements to change institutions and not to preserve them intact. It follows from what has been said that there have been movements to bring about a changed distribution of power to do - and power to think and to express thought is a power to do- so that there would be a more balanced, a more equal, even, and equitable system of human liberties.

most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.

One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.

I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself.