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Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.
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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You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.
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Routine is the god of every social system it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork.
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The motive of success is not enough.
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The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
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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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Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
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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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From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
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...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.
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In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections.
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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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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
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Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.
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But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
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Value is coextensive with reality.
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