Quotes in the windows

Frosted into the windows in the philosophy department building at the University of Washington.

“Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.”
– Virginia Woolf

“And information severed from thoughtful action is dead, a mind-crushing load. Since it simulates knowledge and thereby develops the poison of conceit, it is a most powerful obstacle to further growth in the grace of intelligence.”
– John Dewey