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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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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.
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After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.
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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
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One and one make two assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this notion of unimportant change.
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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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That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
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Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.
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Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.
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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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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
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Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
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I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.
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Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
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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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You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.
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It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest.
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Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.
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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
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The term many presupposes the term one , and the term one presupposes the term many.
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