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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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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A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.
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After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.
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But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
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Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.
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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty so that the massiveness of order does not degenerate into mere repetition and so that the novelty is always reflected upon a background of system.
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The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
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Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.
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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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Seek simplicity, then distrust.
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The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.
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It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.
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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
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I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.
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The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.
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The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus .
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