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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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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
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Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.
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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
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Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.
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To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.
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Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.
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