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The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground for it is the past, and it is the future.
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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Error itself may be happy chance.
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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
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The term many presupposes the term one , and the term one presupposes the term many.
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I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.
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When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
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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 no nature in an instant.
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Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.
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Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.
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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
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A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.
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