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Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.
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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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
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There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
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Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.
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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 preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.
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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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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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