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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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Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
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Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.
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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 preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.
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I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the pupil has got to know in precise fashion. He will then cease from half-hearted attempts to worry his pupils with memorizing a lot of irrelevant stuff of inferior importance.
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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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The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort.
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An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.
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The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.
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Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.
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It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.
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Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.
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Knowledge keeps no better than fish.
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The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.
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You may not divide the seamless coat of learning.
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Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.
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