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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
That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
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Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to teach from it. Of course it will be difficult to teach from it. It it were easy, the book ought to be burned.
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A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.
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The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.
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The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
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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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Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.
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But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.
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There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
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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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I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.
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Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.
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It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages.
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Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.
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Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
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The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.
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Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.
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To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.
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Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.
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