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Speak out in acts the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
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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Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.
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Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.
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Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
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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 learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.
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