We only think when confronted with a problem. Auteur: John Dewey Copy Quote More from John Dewey “Men have gone on to build up vast intellectual schemes, philosophies, and theol…” “An empirical philosophy is in any case a kind of intellectual disrobing. We can…” “The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.” “The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.”