The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or propaganda.

All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

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

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself

A response is not just a re-action, a protest, as it were, against being disturbed; it is, as the word indicates, an answer. It meets the stimulus, and corresponds with it.

To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.