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Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.
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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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.
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Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.
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Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
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In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.
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Problems are only opportunities in disquise.
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Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
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I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
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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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Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.
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Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.
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The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
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Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.
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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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The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.
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Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.
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Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
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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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Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.
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The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort.
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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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