| Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. |
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- Alfred North Whitehead |
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| The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals. |
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- Alfred North Whitehead |
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| Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking. |
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- Alfred North Whitehead |
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| It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages. |
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- 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. |
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- 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. |
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- Alfred North Whitehead |
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| Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings. |
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- Alfred North Whitehead |
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| Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance. |
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- Alfred North Whitehead |
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| Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. |
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- 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. |
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- Alfred North Whitehead |
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| Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities. |
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- Alfred North Whitehead |
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| I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine. |
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- 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. |
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- Alfred North Whitehead |
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