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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 study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.
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Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.
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The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.
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Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about any things or about some things, without specifications of definite particular things.
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The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.
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A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.
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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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War can protect it cannot create.
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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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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
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The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.
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After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.
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The motive of success is not enough.
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