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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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No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.
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Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.
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The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.
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The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad... Truth matters because of beauty.
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You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
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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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Philosophy is the product of wonder.
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There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.
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Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
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Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.
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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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Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
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Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.
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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
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The way in which the persecution of Galileo has been remembered is a tribute to the quiet commencement of the most intimate change in outlook which the human race had yet encountered. Since a babe was born in a manger, it may be doubted whether so great a thing has happened with so little stir
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It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.
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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
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Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues.
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It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.
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But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
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