There can be no doubt ... of our dependence upon forces beyond our control. Primitive man was so impotent in the face of these forces that g , especially in an unfavorable natural environment, fear became a dominant attitude, and, as the old saying goes, fear created gods.

Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.

Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.

When things have a meaning for us, we mean (intend, propose) what we do: when they do not, we act blindly, unconsciously, unintelligently.

Where there is giving there must be taking.

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

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