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With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more powerful.
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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Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.
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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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Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.
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The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground for it is the past, and it is the future.
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