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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
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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Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
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The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed.
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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
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In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.
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The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.
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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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Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to teach from it. Of course it will be difficult to teach from it. It it were easy, the book ought to be burned.
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Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.
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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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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
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No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.
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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
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A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.
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Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.
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