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Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.
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 total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
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The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.
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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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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
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The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.
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Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.
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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
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People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature.
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Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.
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Philosophy is the product of wonder.
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Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.
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The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.
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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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What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.
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The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.
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Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.
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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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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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Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
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