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Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.
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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We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.
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People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature.
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A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.
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Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty so that the massiveness of order does not degenerate into mere repetition and so that the novelty is always reflected upon a background of system.
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No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.
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Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
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[In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting.
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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 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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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
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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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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
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You think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day I think it is what it seems like in the early morning when one first wakes from deep sleep.
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So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.
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The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.
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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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When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
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Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.
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