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Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.
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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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.
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The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.
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It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
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Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.
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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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It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
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The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.
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You think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day I think it is what it seems like in the early morning when one first wakes from deep sleep.
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But in the prevalent discussion of classes, there are illegitimate transitions to the notions of a 'nexus' and of a 'proposition'. The appeal to a class to perform the services of a proper entity is exactly analogous to an appeal to an imaginary terrier to kill a real rat. Process and Reality
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On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.
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Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.
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If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
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It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.
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