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The term many presupposes the term one , and the term one presupposes the term many.
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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The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.
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It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.
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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.
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Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.
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Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.
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Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.
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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
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Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.
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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
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The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.
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The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.
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The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance.
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...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.
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Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.
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In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.
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Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.
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