John Dewey

I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.

John Dewey

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

John Dewey

In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.

John Dewey

In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object.

John Dewey

Inference is always an invasion of the unknown, a leap from the known.

John Dewey

Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

John Dewey

It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.

John Dewey

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.

John Dewey

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

John Dewey

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

John Dewey