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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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The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact, then it is not going too far to say that the souls of men are the gift from language to mankind. The account of the sixth day should be written: He gave them speech, and they became souls.
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The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.
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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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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
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In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections.
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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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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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Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.
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Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.
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The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operations of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. It is in a way the most civilised of all the cardinals, and its use is only forced on us by the needs of cultivated modes of thought.
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In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.
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Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.
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