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The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.
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 pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
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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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A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.
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Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.
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Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.
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No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.
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