If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create and maintain a free and democratic social system must create responsible independence of thought among its young.

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.

Science is a systematic means of gaining reliable knowledge.

We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future.

The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education.

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