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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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A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.
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The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.
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The motive of success is not enough.
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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.
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The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.
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The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
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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.
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The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.
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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.
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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.
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Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.
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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.
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The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
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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.
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The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
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Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.
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Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
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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.
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A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.
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