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Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.
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 consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.
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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.
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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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Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.
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In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.
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The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.
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The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.
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I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
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The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.
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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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Error itself may be happy chance.
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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
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After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.
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Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.
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In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the truth that all science, as it grows towards perfection, becomes mathematical in its ideas.
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Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.
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Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.
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Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.
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Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues.
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The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.
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