John Dewey Quotes

You couldn't have human society without language.

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.

When we change the way we communicate, we change society.

With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange.

To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.

Conversation is a beautiful thing. When I was a younger guy, just wandering around talking to people was what kept me connected to the world.

What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever.

The sharing of food is the basis of social life.

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human.

I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.

Whether a plane to Singapore, a subway in Manhattan, or the streets of Cincinnati, I search for meaningful conversation wherever I may travel. Without it, I believe we lose the ability to not only understand others, but more importantly, ourselves.

Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size that everyone does not know everyone else

The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.

Private communication systems have been around since the beginning of human culture.

I hope to use food as a way to connect with people.

I feel travelling by road helps me connect with more people and understand their problems.

Because you know what happens when you say 'hello' or 'good morning?' You make a connection. And isn't that what being human is all about?

I face no problem in communicating with the people of Orissa whom I meet everyday.

And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall be sent, 't unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident may come refined with the accents that are ours?

Community means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their relationships.

Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.

Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.