"One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering."
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"Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science."
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"When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top."
Alfred North Whitehead |
"Value is coextensive with reality."
Alfred North Whitehead |
"I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology."
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"The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India; and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks"
Alfred North Whitehead
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"If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer."
Alfred North Whitehead |
"Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude."
Alfred North Whitehead |
"The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self."
Alfred North Whitehead |
"Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well."
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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"It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy"
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV."
Alfred North Whitehead
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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."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world."
Alfred North Whitehead |
"Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language."
Alfred North Whitehead |
"Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure."
Alfred North Whitehead |
"Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"The chief error in philosophy is overstatement."
Alfred North Whitehead |
"Problems are only opportunities in disquise."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities."
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