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From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
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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Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.
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The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.
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Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.
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The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.
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Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.
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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.
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Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.
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Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.
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That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
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I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.
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Value is coextensive with reality.
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Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.
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In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of WISDOM.
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The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.
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...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.
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It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
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To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.
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No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes.
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The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.
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Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
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