Not who you're looking for? Others named John Dewey: American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”
“So we are always esthetically disappointed when the sensuous qualities and the intellectual properties of an object do not coalesce.”
“The true antithesis of nature is not art but arbitrary conceit, fantasy, and stereotyped convention.”
“Interest only becomes one-sided and morbid only when it ceases to be frank, and becomes sly and furtive.”
“The color is of the object and the object in all its qualities is expressed through color. For it is objects that glows— gems and sunlight; and it is objects that are splendid— crowns, robes, sunlight. Except as they express objects, through being the significant color-quality of materials of ordinary experience, colors effect only transient excitations.”
“It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well-put is half-solved.”
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