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Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
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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Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
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What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.
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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
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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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The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.
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The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.
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God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality.
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Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.
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A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.
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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
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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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Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.
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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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The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
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Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.
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Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.
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The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
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The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.
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Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.
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