Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.

Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse.

Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.

The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of judgment, exercised in behalf of purposes that are intrinsically worth while. The commonest mistake made about freedom is, I think, to identify it with freedom of movement, or, with the external or physical side of activity.

We have already noticed the difference in the attitude of a spectator and of an agent or participant. The former is indifferent to what is going on; one result is just as good as another, since each is just something to look at. The latter is bound up with what is going on; its outcome makes a difference to him.

Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men.

A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.