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Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.
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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A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
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The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
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The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be ``Seek simplicity and distrust it.''
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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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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Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.
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Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.
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What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.
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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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The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.
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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.
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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
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Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.
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The term many presupposes the term one , and the term one presupposes the term many.
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Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.
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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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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
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