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A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.
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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From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
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Philosophy is the product of wonder.
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So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.
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Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.
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To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.
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Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
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The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
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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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Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards we can reverse the process and descend from the general to the particular, ascending and descending like angels on Jacob's ladder.
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The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
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There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.
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The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be ``Seek simplicity and distrust it.''
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Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.
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Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.
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Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.
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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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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
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The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.
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Seek simplicity, then distrust.
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