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  • #151
    John Dewey
    “The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.”
    ― John Dewey, Experience and Education
    tags: education, learning, philosophy, teaching
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  • #152
    John Dewey
    “Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry. ”
    ― John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy
    tags: nature, science
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  • #153
    John Dewey
    “For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.”
    ― John Dewey
    tags: change, education, isms
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  • #154
    John Dewey
    “The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs. ”
    ― John Dewey
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  • #155
    John Dewey
    “The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.”
    ― John Dewey
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  • #156
    John Dewey
    “The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.”
    ― John Dewey
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  • #157
    John Dewey
    “As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.”
    ― John Dewey
    tags: attenuation, big-business, business, corruption, politics, shadow, substance
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  • #158
    John Dewey
    “Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.”
    ― John Dewey, Experience and Nature
    tags: communication, experience, nature, philosophy-of-life
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  • #159
    Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
    “I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.”
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
    tags: civilization, taxes
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  • #160
    Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
    “Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.”
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., The Common Law
    tags: common-law, dog
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  • #161
    Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
    “The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.”
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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  • #162
    Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
    “A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born.”
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
    tags: education
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  • #163
    Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
    “A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.”
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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  • #164
    Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
    “Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.”
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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  • #165
    Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
    “We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.”
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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  • #166
    Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
    “If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.”
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
    tags: trouble
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  • #167
    Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
    “Every calling is great when greatly pursued.”
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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  • #168
    Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
    “We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.”
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
    tags: facts, reality, semantics, thinking, thought, truth, words
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  • #169
    Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
    “The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.”
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
    tags: culture, human-agency, law, logic
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  • #170
    Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
    “If my fellow citizens want to go to Hell I will help them. Its my job.”
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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  • #171
    Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
    “The rational study of law is still to a large extent the study of history. History must be a part of the study, because without it we cannot know the precise scope of rules which it is our business to know.”
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., The Path of the Law
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  • #172
    Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
    “Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.”
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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  • #173
    Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
    “The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.”
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
    tags: freedom, individualism, respecting-others
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  • #174
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
    It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: freedom, life, personal-responsibility
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  • #175
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
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  • #176
    William James
    “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ”
    ― William James
    tags: action, happiness, motivational, work
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  • #177
    William James
    “The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.”
    ― William James
    tags: wisdom
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  • #178
    William James
    “We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”
    ― William James
    tags: connection, friendship, sea
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  • #179
    William James
    “A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
    ― William James
    tags: attributed, honesty, integrity, philosophy, wisdom
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  • #180
    William James
    “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
    ― William James
    tags: actions, attributed, change
    605 likes



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