John Dewey: “We do not “naturally” or organically need them, but we want them.”

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

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

Vision is a spectator; hearing is a participator.

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