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Value is coextensive with reality.
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 natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest.
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Knowledge does not keep any better than fish.
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The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.
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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.
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There is no nature in an instant.
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It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
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Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues.
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In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.
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The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.
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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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Common sense is genius in homespun.
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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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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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It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
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The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
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Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.
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Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art.
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In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till it has merged its individual claim with that of the objective universe. Religion is world-loyalty.
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Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.
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