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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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Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.
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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover 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.
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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.
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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.
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Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.
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The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation 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.''
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The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
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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 future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.
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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
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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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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.
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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.
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Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.
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When success turns a man's head he faces failure
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A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.
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There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.
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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.
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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.
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