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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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Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.
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Knowledge does not keep any better than fish.
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Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.
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Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.
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The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad... Truth matters because of beauty.
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The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.
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We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
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A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.
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Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.
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Seek simplicity but distrust it.
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Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
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It is the business of the future to be dangerous.
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Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.
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Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.
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Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.
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Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.
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An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.
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The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
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