John Dewey: “Without roads which one is free to use at will, men might almost as well be castaways on a desert island.”

For the older symbols of ideal life still engage thought and command loyalty.

The easiest way out was to go back to the naked individual, to sweep away all associations as foreign to his nature and rights save as they proceeded from his own voluntary choice, and guaranteed his own private ends.

In no two ages or places is there the same public.

If one wishes to realize the distance which may lie between “facts” and the meaning of facts, let one go to the field of social discussion.