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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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More quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort.
Alfred North Whitehead
The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
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It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
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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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On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.
Alfred North Whitehead
Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.
Alfred North Whitehead
Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.
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Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.
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Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.
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Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.
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Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.
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In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world
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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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Knowledge keeps no better than fish.
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No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.
Alfred North Whitehead
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
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The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.
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The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.
Alfred North Whitehead
The many become one and are increased by one.
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Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.
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