John Dewey: “If the ideals associated with the higher life of our cultural past have been impaired, the fault is primarily with them.”

The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.

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

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.

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