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An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.
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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I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.
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The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.
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The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.
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Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
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What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.
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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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The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.
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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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Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.
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The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
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In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.
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