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Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things.

— John Dewey Democracy and Education (1916)

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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)

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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