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When success turns a man's head he faces failure
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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Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.
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There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality.
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The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.
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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
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I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize, because I am really not responsible for the fact that nature in its most fundamental aspect is four-dimensional. Things are what they are.
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It is the business of the future to be dangerous.
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You think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day I think it is what it seems like in the early morning when one first wakes from deep sleep.
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
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Problems are only opportunities in disquise.
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
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Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.
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[In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting.
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Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues.
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Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
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It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.
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The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
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Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.
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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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From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
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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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