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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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Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.
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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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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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Seek simplicity but distrust it.
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An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.
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In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the truth that all science, as it grows towards perfection, becomes mathematical in its ideas.
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The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus .
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Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.
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Speak out in acts the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
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The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.
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In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.
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There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.
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The motive of success is not enough.
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I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the pupil has got to know in precise fashion. He will then cease from half-hearted attempts to worry his pupils with memorizing a lot of irrelevant stuff of inferior importance.
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Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.
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Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the self has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.
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Philosophy is the product of wonder.
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A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.
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It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society .
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