John Dewey Quotes About Conflict

Quotes about: Conflict

• Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving…conflict is a sine qua non of reflection and ingenuity.

  John Dewey

  Memories, Reflection, Sheep

  John Dewey (2007). “Human Nature and Conduct: An Introduction to Social Psychology”, p.300, Cosimo, Inc.

• The intellectual content of religions has always finally adapted itself to scientific and social conditions after they have become clear.... For this reason I do not think that those who are concerned about the future of a religious attitude should trouble themselves about the conflict of science with traditional doctrines.

  John Dewey

  Religious, Attitude, Thinking

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Paul Kurtz (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930”, p.273, SIU Press

• The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so fixed in advance that it can never be modified.

  John Dewey

  Religious, Atheism, Belief

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.241, University of Illinois Press

• Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse between them and thus accidentally enables them to learn from one another, and thereby to expand their horizons. Travel, economic and commercial tendencies, have at present gone far to break down external barriers; to bring peoples and classes into closer and more perceptible connection with one another.

  John Dewey

  Spring, War, Class

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.82, Courier Corporation

• The method of democracy is to bring conflicts out into the open where their special claims can be seen and appraised, where they can be discussed and judged.

  John Dewey

  Democracy, Special, Conflict

  John Dewey, Debra Morris, Ian Shapiro (1993). “The Political Writings”, p.148, Hackett Publishing

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