An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force.

The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality.

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

Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.

The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself

A child might be made to bow every time he met a certain person by pressure on his neck muscles, and bowing would finally become automatic. It would not, however, be an act of recognition or deference on his part, till he did it with a certain end in view - as having a certain meaning.

Education has no more serious responsibility than the making of adequate provision for enjoyment of recreative leisure not only for the sake of immediate health, but for the sake of its lasting effect upon the habits of the mind.