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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
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 self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.
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There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.
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I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from the charge of anti-intellectualism, which rightly or wrongly has been associated with it.
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Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
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Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about any things or about some things, without specifications of definite particular things.
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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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A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.
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