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Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
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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There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.
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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
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One and one make two assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this notion of unimportant change.
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The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
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The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.
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Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.
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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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Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.
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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
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From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
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Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.
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The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.
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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
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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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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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Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.
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A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.
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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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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 main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader.
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