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Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?
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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Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
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Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards we can reverse the process and descend from the general to the particular, ascending and descending like angels on Jacob's ladder.
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Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.
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I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.
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The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.
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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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We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.
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Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.
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Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.
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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
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Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.
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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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The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.
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Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.
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On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.
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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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