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It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.
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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If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing.
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The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.
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Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.
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The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.
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No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.
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There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.
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It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.
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Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.
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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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Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.
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An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.
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Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.
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The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.
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Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.
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It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages.
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Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.
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Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.
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The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.
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How the past perishes is how the future becomes.
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The motive of success is not enough.
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