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No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.
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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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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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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Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.
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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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Seek simplicity, then distrust.
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Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.
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Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.
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You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.
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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
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It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts but until this has occurred, words do not count.
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Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
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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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Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.
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Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.
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The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.
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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
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Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
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Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.
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