I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social life and cultureof their epoch. They seem to accept a dogma of immaculate conception of philosophical systems.

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 there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.

The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.

Men have gone on to build up vast intellectual schemes, philosophies, and theologies, to prove that ideals are not real as ideals but as antecedently existing actualities. They have failed to see that in converting moral realities into matters of intellectual assent they have evinced lack of moral faith.

The only thing that is unqualifiedly given is the total pervasive quality; and the objection to calling it "given" is that the word suggests something to which it is given, mind or thought or consciousness or whatever, as well possibly as something that gives.