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I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.
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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A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.
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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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The many become one and are increased by one.
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A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.
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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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Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.
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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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Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when occasion arises, we select the right page to read aloud to the universe.
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In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of WISDOM.
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A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.
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No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.
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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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A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.
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The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.
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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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