The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt.

Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation.

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

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.

All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral.

Within even the most social group there are many relations that are not as yet social.

I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.