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Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
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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Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.
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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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Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
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[In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting.
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The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.
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Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.
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The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.
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Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.
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It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a proposition in an occasion of experience is its interest and is its importance. But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one.
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The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.
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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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Philosophy is the product of wonder.
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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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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are cavalry charges in a battle - they are limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.
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The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.
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Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.
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Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.
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The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
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With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more powerful.
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Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
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