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The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.
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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A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.
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Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the final aim of philosophy, the flux of things is one ultimate generalization around which we must weave our philosophical system.
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The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.
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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.
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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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I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.
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It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
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The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operations of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. It is in a way the most civilised of all the cardinals, and its use is only forced on us by the needs of cultivated modes of thought.
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Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.
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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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All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.
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When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
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In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.
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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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The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.
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