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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
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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The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operations of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. It is in a way the most civilised of all the cardinals, and its use is only forced on us by the needs of cultivated modes of thought.
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Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.
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You may not divide the seamless coat of learning.
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Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.
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Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art.
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There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.
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The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.
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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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[In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting.
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Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.
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I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.
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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
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The way in which the persecution of Galileo has been remembered is a tribute to the quiet commencement of the most intimate change in outlook which the human race had yet encountered. Since a babe was born in a manger, it may be doubted whether so great a thing has happened with so little stir
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Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.
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The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.
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Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.
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