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It is the business of the future to be dangerous.
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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Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the final aim of philosophy, the flux of things is one ultimate generalization around which we must weave our philosophical system.
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Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
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Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.
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The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground for it is the past, and it is the future.
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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
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Problems are only opportunities in disquise.
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Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.
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Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.
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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.
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The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.
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Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.
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Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.
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I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize, because I am really not responsible for the fact that nature in its most fundamental aspect is four-dimensional. Things are what they are.
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Seek simplicity but distrust it.
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I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from the charge of anti-intellectualism, which rightly or wrongly has been associated with it.
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Philosophy is the product of wonder.
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In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.
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On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.
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I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.
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