Maxioms by John Dewey
To me faith means not worrying.
To me faith means not worrying.
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
...the conviction persists - though history has shown it to be a hallucination - that all the questions that the read more
...the conviction persists - though history has shown it to be a hallucination - that all the questions that the human mind has asked are questions that can be answered in terms of the alternatives that the questions themselves present. But in fact intellectual progress usually occurs through sheer abandonment of questions together with both of the alternatives they assume - an abandonment that results from their decreasing vitality and change of urgent interest. We do not solve them: we get over them. Old questions are solved by disappearing, evaporating, while new questions corresponding to the changed attitude of endeavor and preference take their place.
