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Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

Education is not a preparation for life, education is life itself.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

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

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - The Quest for Certainty.

Education is a social process ... Education is growth.... Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.

To me faith means not worrying.

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a "pet" notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.

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

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

...the conviction persists - though history has shown it to be a hallucination - that all the questions that the human mind has asked are questions that can be answered in terms of the alternatives that the questions themselves present. But in fact intellectual progress usually occurs through sheer abandonment of questions together with both of the alternatives they assume - an abandonment that results from their decreasing vitality and change of urgent interest. We do not solve them: we get over them. Old questions are solved by disappearing, evaporating, while new questions corresponding to the changed attitude of endeavor and preference take their place.

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

We only think when we are confronted with a problem.

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.