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Alfred North Whitehead
Age: 86 †
Born: 1861
Born: February 15
Died: 1947
Died: December 30
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A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.
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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.
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God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality.
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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
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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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Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.
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Philosophy is the product of wonder.
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Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.
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Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.
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Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.
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No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.
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Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.
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Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.
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Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.
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Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art.
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One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
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In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.
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Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.
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Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.
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