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If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
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 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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The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.
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Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.
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I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.
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The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.
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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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Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.
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No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.
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The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.
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There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
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Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
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The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.
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To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.
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The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
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