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That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
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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Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
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Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
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The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.
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Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.
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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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Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.
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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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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
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The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.
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The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.
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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 guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
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Value is coextensive with reality.
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The many become one and are increased by one.
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Knowledge keeps no better than fish.
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Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
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