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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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Alfred North Whitehead
Age: 86 †
Born: 1861
Born: February 15
Died: 1947
Died: December 30
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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.
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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.
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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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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
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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.
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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 .
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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
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The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact, then it is not going too far to say that the souls of men are the gift from language to mankind. The account of the sixth day should be written: He gave them speech, and they became souls.
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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.
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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.
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
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When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
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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.
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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.
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.
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Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.
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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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What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.
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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.
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