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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.
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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The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.
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The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.
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The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operations of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. It is in a way the most civilised of all the cardinals, and its use is only forced on us by the needs of cultivated modes of thought.
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A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.
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The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
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