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Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.
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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Error is the price we pay for progress.
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In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till it has merged its individual claim with that of the objective universe. Religion is world-loyalty.
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[In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting.
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Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.
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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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What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.
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The motive of success is not enough.
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A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.
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Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.
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Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.
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Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.
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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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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
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Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.
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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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