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The term many presupposes the term one , and the term one presupposes the term many.

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Alfred North Whitehead
Age: 86 †
Born: 1861
Born: February 15
Died: 1947
Died: December 30
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Philosopher
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The many become one and are increased by one.
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I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.
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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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The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.
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The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.
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The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality.
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Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.
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You may not divide the seamless coat of learning.
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But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
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Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.
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The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.
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Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.
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After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.
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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
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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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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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Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.
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Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
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There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
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