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.

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

Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.

It is commonplace that a problem stated is well on its way to solution, for statement of the nature of a problem signifies that the underlying quality is being transformed into determinate distinctions of terms and relations or has become an object of articulate thought.

The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends upon connection with a shared experience.

Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.

The parts of a machine work with a maximum of cooperativeness for a common result, but they do not form a community. If, however, they were all cognizant of the common end and all interested in it so that they regulated their specific activity in view of it, then they would form a community. But this would involve communication. Each would have to know what the other was about and would have to have some way of keeping the other informed as to his own purpose and progress.