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Problems are only opportunities in disquise.

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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Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
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The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.
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The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality.
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The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.
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No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.
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Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
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In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.
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The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.
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Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.
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Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
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We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision.
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The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground for it is the past, and it is the future.
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Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
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The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.
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No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.
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The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.
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There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality.
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It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
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