It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made... any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and s...torms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Placing too much importance on where a child goes rather than what he does there . . . doesn't take into account the child's needs... or individuality, and this is true in college selection as well as kindergarten.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary p...eople; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant. They are two orders of fact which reflect each other, which are always linked and which sometimes provoke each other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into... account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we think offhand of a politician, we think of a man who works for a partial interest. At the worst it is his own pocket. At t...he best it may be his party, his class, or an institution with which he is identified. We never feel that he can or will take into account all the interests concerned, and because bias and partisanship are the qualities of his conduct, we feel, unless we are naively afflicted with the same bias, that he is not to be trusted too far. Now the word "statesman," when it is not mere pomposity, connotes a man whose mind is elevated sufficiently above the conflict of contending parties to enable him to adopt a course of action which takes into account a greater number of interests in the perspective of a longer period of time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It might seem desirable to attempt a definition of play--not a dictionary definition but one that takes into account the psycholog...ical principles involved. We might define it as pleasurable activity in which the means is more important than the ostensible end. This clearly distinguishes it from work, and is in line with our hypothesis that, like work, play is an end in itself, an opportunity for the discharge of aggressive energy in not only painless but actually pleasurable forms, energy which would otherwise be repressed at a definite psychological expense or else expressed in harmful ways. Play acts out timelessly in pantomime, symbol, and gesture the unfulfillable aggressive and erotic wishes of the players. I say unfulfillable, although the fantasies of some play are actually realized later, as, for example, in the little girl's play with her doll.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not more people that are needed in the world but better people, physically, morally and mentally. This question of raising t...he quality of our American population must also be taken into account in the question of immigration.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the ma...in one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »