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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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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Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
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If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing.
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It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts but until this has occurred, words do not count.
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Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.
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Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
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Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.
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The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.
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Seek simplicity but distrust it.
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