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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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There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.
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Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.
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Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.
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Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.
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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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Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty so that the massiveness of order does not degenerate into mere repetition and so that the novelty is always reflected upon a background of system.
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...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.
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You may not divide the seamless coat of learning.
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Knowledge keeps no better than fish.
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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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Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.
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The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.
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The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.
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Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.
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The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.
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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
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In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.
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Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?
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I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the pupil has got to know in precise fashion. He will then cease from half-hearted attempts to worry his pupils with memorizing a lot of irrelevant stuff of inferior importance.
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In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections.
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