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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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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are cavalry charges in a battle - they are limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.
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The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.
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Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.
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Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
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Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.
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I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.
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There is no nature in an instant.
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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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Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.
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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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You may not divide the seamless coat of learning.
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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
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Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.
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One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
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We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.
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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
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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.
Alfred North Whitehead
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
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