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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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Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.
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If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing.
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Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.
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There is no nature at an instant.
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Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.
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Error itself may be happy chance.
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Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.
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Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
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I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the pupil has got to know in precise fashion. He will then cease from half-hearted attempts to worry his pupils with memorizing a lot of irrelevant stuff of inferior importance.
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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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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.
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To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.
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The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance.
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Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
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Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.
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The way in which the persecution of Galileo has been remembered is a tribute to the quiet commencement of the most intimate change in outlook which the human race had yet encountered. Since a babe was born in a manger, it may be doubted whether so great a thing has happened with so little stir
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Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
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Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.
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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
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