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Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.
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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In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till it has merged its individual claim with that of the objective universe. Religion is world-loyalty.
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The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.
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It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts but until this has occurred, words do not count.
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The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.
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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
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No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
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It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
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Common sense is genius in homespun.
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Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.
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In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.
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Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.
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