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Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.
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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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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You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.
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Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.
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No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
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Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
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In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.
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Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.
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The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.
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