John Dewey Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

  John Dewey

  Inspirational, Time, Memories

  John Dewey (2015). “Reconstruction in Philosophy: Top American Authors”, p.48, 谷月社

• The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

  John Dewey

  Attitude, Desire, Important

  John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.49, Kappa Delta Pi

• Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of school education is the extent in which it creates a desire for continuous growth and supplies means for making the desire effective in fact.

  John Dewey

  Learning, School, Mean

  John Dewey (2004). “Democracy and Education”, p.51, Courier Corporation

• The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.

  John Dewey

  Important, Desire, Human Nature

• Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

  John Dewey

  Death, Nature, Mean

• Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Conditions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in; they are to be utilized and directed.

  John Dewey

  Change, Education, Memories

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Ralph Ross (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920”, p.146, SIU Press

• The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.

  John Dewey

  Mean, Desire, Used

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Steven M. Cahn (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939”, p.321, SIU Press

• It is not truly realistic or scientific to take short views, to sacrifice the future to immediate pressure, to ignore facts and forces that are disagreeable and to magnify the enduring quality of whatever falls in with immediate desire. It is false that the evils of the situation arise from absence of ideals; they spring from wrong ideals.

  John Dewey

  Spring, Fall, Sacrifice

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Ralph Ross (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920”, p.154, SIU Press

• By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.

  John Dewey

  Reading, Men, Air

  John Dewey (2015). “Reconstruction in Philosophy: Top American Authors”, p.48, 谷月社

• Many of the obstacles for change which have been attributed to human nature are in fact due to the inertia of institutions and to the voluntary desire of powerful classes to maintain the existing status.

  John Dewey

  Powerful, Class, Desire

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Ratner (2008). “The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925 - 1953: 1931-1932, Essays, Reviews, and Miscellany”, p.38, SIU Press

• The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has been organized into our disposition so as to enable us to adapt the environment to our needs and adapt our aims and desires to the situation in which we live is really knowledge.

  John Dewey

  Knowledge, Science, Knowing

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.313, Courier Corporation

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