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The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.
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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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality.
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...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.
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What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.
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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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The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.
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From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
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Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.
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It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.
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The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.
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Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.
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Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.
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Error is the price we pay for progress.
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As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.
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