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Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.

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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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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Value is coextensive with reality.
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The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
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Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.
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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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The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader.
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The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.
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Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.
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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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Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.
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I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.
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Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.
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The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.
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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 period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
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There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality.
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What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.
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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
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Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
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The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.
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