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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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Value is coextensive with reality.
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In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.
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I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.
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The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.
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Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large. . . . How large? It is no use saying the radium is scarce. . . . How scarce? You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
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The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.
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In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.
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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.
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Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.
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Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
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Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
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There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality.
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Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
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There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations
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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
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A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.
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It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.
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It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages.
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Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
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