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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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...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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Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.
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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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I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize, because I am really not responsible for the fact that nature in its most fundamental aspect is four-dimensional. Things are what they are.
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The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
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All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.
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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.
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Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.
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Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.
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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
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Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.
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We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.
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It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts but until this has occurred, words do not count.
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Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.
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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
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The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operations of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. It is in a way the most civilised of all the cardinals, and its use is only forced on us by the needs of cultivated modes of thought.
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Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.
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The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.
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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.
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The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.
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