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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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The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
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The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.
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The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
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I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the pupil has got to know in precise fashion. He will then cease from half-hearted attempts to worry his pupils with memorizing a lot of irrelevant stuff of inferior importance.
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It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.
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But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.
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Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.
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Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.
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Error is the price we pay for progress.
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The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
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The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
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If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing.
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The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.
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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
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From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
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Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.
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There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
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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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