"Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God."
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"The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system."
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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."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions."
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"The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Religion is the last refuge of human savagery."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning."
Alfred North Whitehead
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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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"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"How the past perishes is how the future becomes."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Religion is what a person does in his solitariness."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Philosophy is the product of wonder."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment"
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Seek simplicity but distrust it."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths."
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"We think in generalities, but we live in detail."
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"The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Above all things we must be aware of what I will call 'inert ideas'
-that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind
without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations."
Alfred North Whitehead
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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."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Without adventure civilization is in full decay."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties"
Alfred North Whitehead
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"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation."
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"Great people plant trees they'll never sit under ."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"The motive of success is not enough."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Error is the price we pay for progress."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover"
Alfred North Whitehead
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"The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality"
Alfred North Whitehead
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"The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications"
Alfred North Whitehead
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