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In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world
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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A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
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The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.
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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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What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.
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Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.
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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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Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.
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The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.
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Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.
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Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.
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The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
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The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus .
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