John Dewey: “Events cannot be passed from one to another, but meanings may be shared by means of signs.”

So to the patent objection that the state is a very modern institution, it is replied that while modernity is a property of those structures which go by the name of states, yet all history, or almost all, records the exercise of analogous…

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

Signs and symbols, language, are the means of communication by which a fraternally shared experience is ushered in and sustained.

Vision is a spectator; hearing is a participator.