John Dewey

“Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.”

“Arriving at one point is the starting point to another.”

“Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.”

“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.”

“The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.”