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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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More quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
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.
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Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.
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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
The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.
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In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.
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Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.
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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.
Alfred North Whitehead
In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.
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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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It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.
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The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.
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I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.
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Error is the price we pay for progress.
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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
The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.
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