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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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We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
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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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Routine is the god of every social system it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork.
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A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.
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It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest.
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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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Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.
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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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When success turns a man's head he faces failure
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Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.
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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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Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.
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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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The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground for it is the past, and it is the future.
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The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.
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The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.
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I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.
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Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.
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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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There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations
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