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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
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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There is no nature in an instant.
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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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All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.
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The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.
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It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts but until this has occurred, words do not count.
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To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us. Everything of importance has been said before by someone who did not discover it.
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are cavalry charges in a battle - they are limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.
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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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Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.
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To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.
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Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.
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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
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The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.
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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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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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Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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