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War can protect it cannot create.
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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Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.
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Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.
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The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.
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I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the pupil has got to know in precise fashion. He will then cease from half-hearted attempts to worry his pupils with memorizing a lot of irrelevant stuff of inferior importance.
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It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.
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The motive of success is not enough.
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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
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The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground for it is the past, and it is the future.
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In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of WISDOM.
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The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.
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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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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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