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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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Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.
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We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision.
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Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
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Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?
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The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.
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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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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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You think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day I think it is what it seems like in the early morning when one first wakes from deep sleep.
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To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.
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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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Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.
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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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Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
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What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.
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A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
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The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
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Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.
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No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
Alfred North Whitehead
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
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