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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
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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It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages.
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Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.
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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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Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.
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Error itself may be happy chance.
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Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.
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In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the truth that all science, as it grows towards perfection, becomes mathematical in its ideas.
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Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.
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On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.
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Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.
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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
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Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
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Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
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The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.
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How the past perishes is how the future becomes.
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
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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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It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.
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Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.
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In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world
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