The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.

Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.

To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience. One shares in what another has thought and felt and in so far, meagerly or amply, has his own attitude modified.

The acquisition however perfectly of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use as a contribution to a common and shared life.

We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.