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Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
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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A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.
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A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.
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It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.
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Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.
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The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance.
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I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine.
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The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
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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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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
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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 self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.
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Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
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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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Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art.
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On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.
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Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the self has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.
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There is no nature in an instant.
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