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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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Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.
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Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.
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Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.
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That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
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A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.
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Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.
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The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance.
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