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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
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Alfred North Whitehead
Age: 86 †
Born: 1861
Born: February 15
Died: 1947
Died: December 30
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The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance.
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.
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Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.
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The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.
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There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.
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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
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A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.
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A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.
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The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.
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The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.
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The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.
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...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.
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