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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
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 absolute pacifist is a bad citizen times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.
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The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
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Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.
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Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
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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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Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.
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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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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
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Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.
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Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.
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No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.
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Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.
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