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Common sense is genius in homespun.
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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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
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An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.
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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
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If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing.
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There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.
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The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.
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Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the final aim of philosophy, the flux of things is one ultimate generalization around which we must weave our philosophical system.
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Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.
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Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.
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All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.
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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
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Seek simplicity, then distrust.
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Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.
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Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.
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Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.
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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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A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.
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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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Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.
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The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus .
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