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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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The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
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One and one make two assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this notion of unimportant change.
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You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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It is the business of the future to be dangerous.
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The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort.
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Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when occasion arises, we select the right page to read aloud to the universe.
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The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.
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It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
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Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
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Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.
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The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.
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The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.
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Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.
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In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections.
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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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Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.
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The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus .
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Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.
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Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
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