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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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There is no nature at an instant.
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Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.
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No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.
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The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.
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Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.
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Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
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Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.
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The motive of success is not enough.
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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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We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.
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...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.
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It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.
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Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.
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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 a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of WISDOM.
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Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.
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The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.
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Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.
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The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort.
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Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.
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