The Great Society created by steam and electricity may be a society, but it is no community.

Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference.

The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.

Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes itself through changes.

Search for a single, inclusive good is doomed to failure. Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situation of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Never shrink from doing anything which your business calls you to do. The man who is above his business may one day find his business above him.

Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative.

Failure is instructive. The person who thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.