John Dewey: “In reality, the trouble springs rather from the ideas and absence of ideas in connection with which technological…”

Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.

We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.

Systematic and continuous inquiry into all the conditions which affect association and their dissemination in print is a precondition of the creation of a true public.

But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.