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Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.
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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Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.
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The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact, then it is not going too far to say that the souls of men are the gift from language to mankind. The account of the sixth day should be written: He gave them speech, and they became souls.
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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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Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.
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Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.
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The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance.
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People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature.
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In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.
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There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality.
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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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A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.
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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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It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.
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Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.
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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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There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.
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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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The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.
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Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.
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Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.
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