John Dewey: “It rules but it does not regulate; for its rule is confined to receipt of tribute and ceremonial deference.”

If the technological age can provide mankind with a firm and general basis of material security, it will be absorbed in a humane age.

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

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

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