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...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.
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 chief error in philosophy is overstatement.
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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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Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
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Above all things we must be aware of what I will call 'inert ideas' - that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations.
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With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more powerful.
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You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
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Common sense is genius in homespun.
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The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.
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Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
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Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.
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