…and feel within me uprush some wilder, darker violence,
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Virginia Woolf, from The Complete Works; “The Waves,” (via violentwavesofemotion) |
Intellectual growth means constant expansion of horizons and consequent formation of new purposes and new responses. These are impossible without an active disposition to welcome points of view hitherto alien; an active desire to entertain considerations which modify existing purposes. Retention of capacity to grow is the reward of such intellectual hospitality.
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John Dewey, Democracy and Education (via philosophybits) |
