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No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.
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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Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.
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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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It is the business of the future to be dangerous.
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The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.
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After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.
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The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.
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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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Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
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Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.
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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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