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I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.
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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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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An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.
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After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.
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The term many presupposes the term one , and the term one presupposes the term many.
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I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.
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Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.
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