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Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.
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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It is the business of the future to be dangerous.
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In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till it has merged its individual claim with that of the objective universe. Religion is world-loyalty.
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In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.
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Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.
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The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.
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The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.
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There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.
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Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
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The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.
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The term many presupposes the term one , and the term one presupposes the term many.
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We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
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The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad... Truth matters because of beauty.
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The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed.
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Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.
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There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your thoughts, any more than they are you. They are a machine you can learn to operate.
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One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
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The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.
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