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Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.
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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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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Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.
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Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.
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The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.
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The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
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It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a proposition in an occasion of experience is its interest and is its importance. But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one.
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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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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.
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Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.
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The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.
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Common sense is genius in homespun.
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With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more powerful.
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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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The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.
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Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.
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It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.
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Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.
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