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Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the self has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.
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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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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I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from the charge of anti-intellectualism, which rightly or wrongly has been associated with it.
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There is no nature in an instant.
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...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.
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A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.
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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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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
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What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.
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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.
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Error is the price we pay for progress.
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Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.
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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 aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.
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Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.
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In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.
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The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.
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Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.
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Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.
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