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The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.
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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There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.
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The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.
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How the past perishes is how the future becomes.
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Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.
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Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.
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The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical.
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It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society .
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.
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Democracy...is a society in which the unbeliever feels undisturbed and at home. If there were only a half dozen unbelievers in America, their well-being would be a test of our democracy.
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Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
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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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The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
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Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.
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Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.
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Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
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