Traveling is a constant arriving, while arrival that precludes further traveling is most easily attained by going to sleep or dying.
John DeweyIn general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object.
John DeweyMen have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to nature to do the work they are responsible for doing.
John DeweyEvery one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive; it refuses to condense into definite form; the attaching of a word somehow (just how, it is almost impossible to say) puts limits around the meaning, draws it out from the void, makes it stand out as an entity on its own account.
John Dewey