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There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations
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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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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Speak out in acts the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
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The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting world are but examples of a few general relations, called laws. To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.
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Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to teach from it. Of course it will be difficult to teach from it. It it were easy, the book ought to be burned.
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Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.
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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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It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.
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In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.
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The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
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I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine.
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The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.
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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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It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.
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Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.
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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
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The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.
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The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.
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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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