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Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.
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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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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Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
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Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when occasion arises, we select the right page to read aloud to the universe.
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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
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The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.
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The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.
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Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the self has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.
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The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.
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The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact, then it is not going too far to say that the souls of men are the gift from language to mankind. The account of the sixth day should be written: He gave them speech, and they became souls.
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The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning.
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Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.
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Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.
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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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[In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting.
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Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.
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All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.
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The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.
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There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations
Alfred North Whitehead
Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.
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