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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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No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.
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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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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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Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
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Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.
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It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.
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A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.
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Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.
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Problems are only opportunities in disquise.
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Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.
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The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.
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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 term many presupposes the term one , and the term one presupposes the term many.
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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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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 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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Philosophy is the product of wonder.
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Democracy...is a society in which the unbeliever feels undisturbed and at home. If there were only a half dozen unbelievers in America, their well-being would be a test of our democracy.
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The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.
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