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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
The Quest for Certainty (1929)
Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.
Experience and Nature (1925)
Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.
The true antithesis of nature is not art but arbitrary conceit, fantasy, and stereotyped convention.
Art as Experience (1934)
Coleridge said that every work of art must have about it something not understood to obtain its full effect.
Art as Experience (1934)
Interest only becomes one-sided and morbid only when it ceases to be frank, and becomes sly and furtive.
Art as Experience (1934)
All the cases in which means and ends are external to one another are non-esthetic.
Art as Experience (1934)
Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake.
Democracy and Education (1916)
In all ranges of experience, externality of means defines the mechanical.
Art as Experience (1934)
Works of art express space as opportunity for movement and action.
Art as Experience (1934)
Art expresses, it does not state; it is concerned with existences in their perceived qualities, not with conceptions symbolized in terms.
Art as Experience (1934)
Artist and perceiver alike begin with what may be called a total seizure, an inclusive qualitative whole not yet articulated, not distinguished into members.
Art as Experience (1934)
Plato defined a slave as one who accepts from another the purposes which control his conduct.
Democracy and Education (1916)
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
My Pedagogic Creed (1897)
Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.
Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things.
Democracy and Education (1916)
An undesirable society, in other words, is one which internally and externally sets up barriers to free intercourse and communication of experience.
Pierce wrote as a logician and James as a humanist.
The recurrence of relations—not of elements—in different contexts, which constitutes transposition is qualitative and hence directly experienced in perception.
Art as Experience (1934)
Emotion is informed and carried forward when it is spent indirectly in search for material and in giving it order, not when it is directly expended.
Art as Experience (1934)