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Knowledge keeps no better than fish.
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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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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We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
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A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.
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It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
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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 aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.
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What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.
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God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality.
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Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.
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The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operations of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. It is in a way the most civilised of all the cardinals, and its use is only forced on us by the needs of cultivated modes of thought.
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Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.
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The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact, then it is not going too far to say that the souls of men are the gift from language to mankind. The account of the sixth day should be written: He gave them speech, and they became souls.
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Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.
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There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
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That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
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A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.
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Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.
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Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.
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The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
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It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society .
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