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The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.
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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Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.
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Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues.
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Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large. . . . How large? It is no use saying the radium is scarce. . . . How scarce? You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
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The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
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The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
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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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The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
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Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.
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The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.
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Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.
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Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.
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