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Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.
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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Democracy...is a society in which the unbeliever feels undisturbed and at home. If there were only a half dozen unbelievers in America, their well-being would be a test of our democracy.
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Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.
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Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.
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Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.
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Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.
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What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.
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I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from the charge of anti-intellectualism, which rightly or wrongly has been associated with it.
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.
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The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
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The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact, then it is not going too far to say that the souls of men are the gift from language to mankind. The account of the sixth day should be written: He gave them speech, and they became souls.
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In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.
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The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.
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Speak out in acts the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
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Knowledge keeps no better than fish.
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