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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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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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Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
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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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Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.
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It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a proposition in an occasion of experience is its interest and is its importance. But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one.
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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 aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.
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The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
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The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
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Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.
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The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
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Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.
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The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
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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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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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Value is coextensive with reality.
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Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues.
Alfred North Whitehead
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
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