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.

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.

The best preparation for the future is a well-spent today.

A being whose activities are associated with others has a social environment. What he does and what he can do depend upon the expectations, demands, approvals, and condemnations of others.

Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more education.‎

We rarely recognize the extent in which our conscious estimates of what is worth while and what is not, are due to standards of which we are not conscious at all.

When "reality" is sought for at large, it is without intellectual import; at most the term carries the connotation of an agreeableemotional state.