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In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till it has merged its individual claim with that of the objective universe. Religion is world-loyalty.
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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Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.
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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
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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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Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.
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People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature.
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Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.
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Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.
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Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.
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