John Dewey

"Growth itself is the only moral purpose."

"Beliefs are formed by the operation of natural selection and habituation."

"Art is the effort to produce a particular kind of experience."

"The test of true religious teaching is that it yields fruits in the world of action."

"Democracy must begin at home, and its home is the neighborhood school."

"The present is the point at which past and future meet in a moment of decision."

"Experience is not a thing of the past; it is a thing in constant flux."

"Judgment depends on some standard, and that standard is experience."

"Criticism is an art, and like all arts, it requires both knowledge and sensibility."

"The cure for bad democracy is more democracy."

"Scientific method is the only authentic means to the reliable discovery of the structure of nature."

"Mind is in the world as truly as the world is in the mind."

"The individual who is to be educated is a social individual."

"Ideas are tested not in the abstract, but in experience."

"Every genuine experience has an aesthetic quality."

"The most notable distinction between mental states is that some are confused while others are clear."

"Culture is not something that can be handed down; it must be recreated by each generation."

"Moral education is not the formation of character according to external standards."

"The world we experience through our sense organs is not the world as it actually is."

"Time is not a river flowing past us; it is constitutive of our being."

"Art celebrates power, and this is its supreme function."

"The degree to which any political form can develop depends on the degree to which all classes of a society are represented."

"Health is a state of dynamic equilibrium with the environment."

"Imagination is the medium in which we contemplate the possible."

"The present supplies all we can ever know, and knowledge of it gives us all the power to change the future."

"Education without direction of interest is purposeless."

"We only think when confronted with a problem."

"Human nature is not originally good or bad; it is capable of development in any direction."

"The touchstone of any civilization is its art."

"Democratic society is concerned not to cramp personality but to realize whatever is distinctive and unique in each individual."