#pragmatism

“The determination of the mot juste , of the right incident in the right place, of exquisiteness of proportion, of the precise tone, hue, and shade that helps unify the whole while it defines a part, is accomplished by emotion. Not every emotion, however, can do this work, but only one informed by material that is grasped and gathered. Emotion is informed and carried forward when it is spent indirectly in search for material and in giving it order, not when it is directly expended. p. 73”

“Just because emotion is essential to that act of expression which produces a work of art, it is easy for inaccurate analysis to misconceive its mode of operation and conclude that the work of art has emotion for its significant content. One may cry out with joy or even weep upon seeing a friend from whom one has been long separated. The outcome is not an expressive object”

“So we are always esthetically disappointed when the sensuous qualities and the intellectual properties of an object do not coalesce. p. 7”

“This intelligence”

“Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail. Democracy and Human Nature , Freedom and Culture”

“Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies. The American Background , Freedom and Culture”

“The Need for a New Party”

“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. The Quest for Certainty (1929), Ch. XI”

“While they denounce as subversive anarchy signs of independent thought, of thinking for themselves on the part of others lest such thought disturb the conditions by which they profit, they think quite literally for themselves, that is of themselves. Human Nature and Conduct (1921) Part 1 Section IV.”

“The Need of an Industrial Education in an Industrial Democracy,”