Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal.

A child may have to be snatched with roughness away from a fire so that he shall not be burnt.

Man's home is nature; his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions. Separated from such conditions they become empty dreams and idle indulgences of fancy.

To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience.

Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order

Traveling is a constant arriving, while arrival that precludes further traveling is most easily attained by going to sleep or dying.

We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.