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The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your thoughts, any more than they are you. They are a machine you can learn to operate. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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All of Western philosophy is but a footnote to Plato. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Change' is the description of the adventures of eternal objects in the evolving universe of actual things. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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How the past perishes is how the future becomes. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the "self" has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life; and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Above all things we must be aware of what I will call 'inert ideas'
- that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind
without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications of definite particular things. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality ... -- Alfred North Whitehead
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All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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But in the prevalent discussion of classes, there are illegitimate transitions to the notions of a 'nexus' and of a 'proposition'. The appeal to a class to perform the services of a proper entity is exactly analogous to an appeal to an imaginary terrier to kill a real rat.
Process and Reality -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards we can reverse the process and descend from the general to the particular, ascending and descending like angels on Jacob's ladder. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Science is a river with two sources, the practical source and the theoretical source. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The way in which the persecution of Galileo has been remembered is a tribute to the quiet commencement of the most intimate change in outlook which the human race had yet encountered. Since a babe was born in a manger, it may be doubted whether so great a thing has happened with so little stir -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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I consider Christian theology to be one of the greatest disasters of the human race. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Without adventure civilization is in full decay. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The art of progress is to reserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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It builds cathedrals before the workmen have moved a stone, and it destroys them before the elements have worn down their arches. It is the architect of the buildings of the spirit, and it is also their solvent: - and the spiritual precedes the material. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural ... A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty ... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation ... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad ... Truth matters because of beauty. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The many become one and are increased by one. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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[In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Everything of importance has already been seen by someone who did not discover it. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the pupil has got to know in precise fashion. He will then cease from half-hearted attempts to worry his pupils with memorizing a lot of irrelevant stuff of inferior importance. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Philosophy is the product of wonder. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.
Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. The limitation, and the basis arising from what is already actual, are both of them necessary and interconnected. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Error is the price we pay for progress. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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You think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day; I think it is what it seems like in the early morning when one first wakes from deep sleep. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment ... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Get your knowledge quickly and then use it. If you can use it you will retain it. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life; wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society . -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to teach from it. Of course it will be difficult to teach from it. It it were easy, the book ought to be burned. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Seek simplicity but distrust it. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the final aim of philosophy, the flux of things is one ultimate generalization around which we must weave our philosophical system. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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God is the unlimited conceptual realization of the absolute wealth of potentiality. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of a defeat; but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress towards a victory. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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It is the business of future to be dangerous ... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Value is coextensive with reality. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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There is no nature at an instant. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when occasion arises, we select the right page to read aloud to the universe. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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My criticism of Hegel procedure is that when in his discussion he arrives at a contradiction, he construes it as a crisis in the universe. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the truth that all science, as it grows towards perfection, becomes mathematical in its ideas. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness of order does not degenerate into mere repetition; and so that the novelty is always reflected upon a background of system. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus . -- Alfred North Whitehead
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We cannot think first and act afterwards. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only guide it by taking thought. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us. Everything of importance has been said before by someone who did not discover it. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Seek simplicity, and distrust it. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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This doctrine of necessity in universality means that there is an essence to the universe which forbids relationships beyond itself, as a violation of its rationality. Speculative philosophy seeks that essence. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from the charge of anti-intellectualism, which rightly or wrongly has been associated with it. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The degeneracy of mankind is distinguished from its uprise by the dominance of chill abstractions, divorced from aesthetic content. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Religion is what a man does with his solitariness. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The merit of Locke's 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding' is its adequacy, and not its consistency ... He should have widened the title of his book into 'An Essay Concerning Experience. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize, because I am really not responsible for the fact that nature in its most fundamental aspect is four-dimensional. Things are what they are. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race ... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India; and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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In all education the main cause of failure is staleness. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of WISDOM. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Governments are best classified by considering who are the "somebodies" they are in fact endeavoring to satisfy. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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War can protect; it cannot create. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Error itself may be happy chance. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Common sense is genius in homespun. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more powerful. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Each creative act is the universe incarnating itself as one, and there is nothing above it by way of final condition. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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When success turns a man's head he faces failure -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about? -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Every really new idea looks crazy at first. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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"One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this notion of unimportant change. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Democracy ... is a society in which the unbeliever feels undisturbed and at home. If there were only a half dozen unbelievers in America, their well-being would be a test of our democracy. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Great people plant trees they'll never sit under. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. Its principles may be eternal, but the expression of those principles requires continual development. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts; but until this has occurred, words do not count. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations -- Alfred North Whitehead
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In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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A science that hesitates to forget its founders is lost. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Knowledge keeps no better than fish. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Religion is the last refuge of human savagery. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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It is presupposed that no entity can be conceived in complete abstraction from the system of the universe, and that it is the business of speculative philosophy to exhibit this truth. This character is its coherence. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton , I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Religion is what a person does in his solitariness. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till it has merged its individual claim with that of the objective universe. Religion is world-loyalty. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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You may not divide the seamless coat of learning, -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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It is a profoundly erroneous truism that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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We think in generalities, but we live in details. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The chief error in philosophy is overstatement. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The motive of success is not enough. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The term many presupposes the term one , and the term one presupposes the term many. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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There is no nature in an instant. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. -- Alfred North Whitehead