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Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.

— John Dewey Experience and Nature (1925)

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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

The Quest for Certainty (1929)

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)

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Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.

Louis Althusser Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1968)

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