“Love gives itself; it is not bought.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
Variant: Unasked, Unsought, Love gives itself but is not bought
Source: The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Susanne K. Langer (1895–1985) American philosopher
Source: Philosophical Sketches (1962), Ch. 5, p. 94
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
This is a paraphrase of an idea that Dewey expressed using other words in My Pedagogic Creed (1897) and Democracy and Education (1916); it is widely misattributed to Dewey as a quotation.
Cf. James William Norman, A Comparison of Tendencies in Secondary Education in England and the United States (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1922), [//books.google.com/books?id=qrmgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA140 p. 140] (emphasis added): "...there has for years been a strong and growing tendency in the United States under the leadership of Dewey, and more recently of Kilpatrick, to find an educational method correlative of democracy in society with the belief that education is life itself rather than a mere preparation for life, and that practice in democratic living is the best preparation for democracy."
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Variant: Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not preparation for life but is life itself.
“Who can give law to lovers? Love is a greater law to itself.”
Quis legem det amantibus?
Maior lex amor est sibi.
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480) philosopher of the early 6th century
Poem XII, lines 47-48
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book III
“When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.”
Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer
Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
“It is life itself that educates.”
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746–1827) Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer
Das Leben bildet.
Schwanengesang [Swan Song] (1826)
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
The Clod and the Pebble, st. 1
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)