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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
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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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
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The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
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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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Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
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The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
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Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to teach from it. Of course it will be difficult to teach from it. It it were easy, the book ought to be burned.
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Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
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The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
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Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.
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I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.
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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
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What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.
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The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.
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Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues.
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Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large. . . . How large? It is no use saying the radium is scarce. . . . How scarce? 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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In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.
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