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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
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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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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When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
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The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground for it is the past, and it is the future.
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There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.
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Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
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The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning.
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Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.
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An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.
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It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
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Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.
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The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.
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Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.
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The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before.
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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
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One and one make two assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this notion of unimportant change.
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In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.
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Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?
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It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
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You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
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