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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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God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality.
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Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.
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Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.
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We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision.
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Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.
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Problems are only opportunities in disquise.
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The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
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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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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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A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.
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I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.
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The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.
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Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.
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Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?
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