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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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Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.
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No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
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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 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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No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.
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Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
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Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.
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Error itself may be happy chance.
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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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Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large. . . . How large? It is no use saying the radium is scarce. . . . How scarce? 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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It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages.
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A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.
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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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The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
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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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There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.
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Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
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The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.
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It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
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