"Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it"
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"Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion."
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"The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals."
Alfred North Whitehead |
"Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows."
Alfred North Whitehead |
"We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision."
Alfred North Whitehead |
"The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs."
Alfred North Whitehead
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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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"Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"The self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence."
Alfred North Whitehead |
"Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it."
Alfred North Whitehead |
"The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience."
Alfred North Whitehead |
"The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long."
Alfred North Whitehead |
"The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"War can protect; it cannot create."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Knowledge keeps no better than fish."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling."
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"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains."
Alfred North Whitehead |
"Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art."
Alfred North Whitehead |
"The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it."
Alfred North Whitehead |
"It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race."
Alfred North Whitehead |
"The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future."
Alfred North Whitehead
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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."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to teach from it.."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel."
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