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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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To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us. Everything of importance has been said before by someone who did not discover it.
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The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
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In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections.
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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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The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
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Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.
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Seek simplicity, then distrust.
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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.
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Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.
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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
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Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty so that the massiveness of order does not degenerate into mere repetition and so that the novelty is always reflected upon a background of system.
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The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
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But in the prevalent discussion of classes, there are illegitimate transitions to the notions of a 'nexus' and of a 'proposition'. The appeal to a class to perform the services of a proper entity is exactly analogous to an appeal to an imaginary terrier to kill a real rat. Process and Reality
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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
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The motive of success is not enough.
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I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
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Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.
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Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.
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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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Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.
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