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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 safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.
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We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.
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The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.
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Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.
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...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.
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Philosophy is the product of wonder.
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Problems are only opportunities in disquise.
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Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
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Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.
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It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.
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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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It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.
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In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the truth that all science, as it grows towards perfection, becomes mathematical in its ideas.
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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
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No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes.
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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
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Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
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