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A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.
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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I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine.
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The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.
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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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Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.
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Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
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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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Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.
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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
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A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
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From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
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