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The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.
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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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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Seek simplicity but distrust it.
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As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.
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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
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Common sense is genius in homespun.
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There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality.
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To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.
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On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.
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In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.
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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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From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
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No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
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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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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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A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.
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Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.
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Knowledge keeps no better than fish.
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Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.
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Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.
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It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.
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