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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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It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.
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No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.
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Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.
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Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.
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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.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.
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Philosophy is the product of wonder.
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Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
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If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing.
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