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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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It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
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No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
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It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.
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People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature.
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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
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Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?
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The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.
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The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
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The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.
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Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.
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Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.
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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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A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.
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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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Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.
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Knowledge keeps no better than fish.
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The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality.
Alfred North Whitehead
We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.
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There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality.
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