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Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.
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 am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from the charge of anti-intellectualism, which rightly or wrongly has been associated with it.
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Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.
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The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad... Truth matters because of beauty.
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The term many presupposes the term one , and the term one presupposes the term many.
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Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
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It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
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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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What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.
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The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.
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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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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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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
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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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The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.
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A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.
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We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
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Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
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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 deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
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It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
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