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The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.
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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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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The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.
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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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Philosophy is the product of wonder.
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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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It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.
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Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
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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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The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
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