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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Alfred North Whitehead
Age: 86 †
Born: 1861
Born: February 15
Died: 1947
Died: December 30
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Speak out in acts the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
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Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.
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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.
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It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
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Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.
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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.
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Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.
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Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are cavalry charges in a battle - they are limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.
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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.
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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.
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Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.
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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.
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The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.
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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.
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I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.
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