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A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.
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 a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
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After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.
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The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
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Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.
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We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.
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The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
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We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision.
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The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.
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The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground for it is the past, and it is the future.
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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You think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day I think it is what it seems like in the early morning when one first wakes from deep sleep.
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Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
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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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Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.
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It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest.
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