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How the past perishes is how the future becomes.
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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Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.
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We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.
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Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.
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