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

A moral principle is not a command to act or to forbear acting in a given way: it is a tool for analyzing a special situation, the right or wrong being determined by the situation in its entirety, not by the rule as such.

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

We cannot think of ourselves save as to some extent social being. Hence, we cannot separate the idea of ourselves and our own good from our idea of others and their good.

I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction.

Resort to military force is a first sure sign that we are giving up the struggle for the democratic way of life, and that the Old World has conquered morally as well as geographically succeeding in imposing upon us its ideals and methods.