The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
We only think when we are confronted with problems.
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.
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.
By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.