Comment nous pensons

Citations

• “This is what we mean by the blind nature of brute actions. The agent does not see or foresee the end for which he is acting, nor the results produced by his behaving in one way rather than in another.”

• “For all anybody can tell in advance, the spilling of salt is as likely to import bad luck as the bite of a mosquito to import malaria.”

• “Teaching and learning are correlative or corresponding processes, as much so as selling and buying. One might as well say he has sold when no one has bought, as to say that he has taught when no one has learned.”

• “Reflection is turning a topic over in various aspects and in various lights so that nothing significant about it shall be overlooked--almost as one might turn a stone over to see what its hidden side is like or what is covered by it.”

• “Information is knowledge which is merely acquired and stored up; wisdom is knowledge operating in the direction of powers to the better living of life.”