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• Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Motivation, Life And Love, Creativity

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.98, David R. Godine Publisher

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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.

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  India, Today, Ancient

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• Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul's self-attainment. It justifies itself both by its immediate enjoyment, and also by its discipline of the inmost being. Its discipline is not distinct from enjoyment but by reason of it. It transforms the soul into the permanent realization of values extending beyond its former self.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Writing, Self

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Math, Development, May

  Science and the ModernWorld ch. 2 (1925)

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• The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Self, Oneness, Diversity

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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  Imagination, Tragedy, Experience

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.

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  Doe, Faces, Spirit

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications. All strong interests easily become impersonal, the love of a good job well done. There is a sense of harmony about such an accomplishment, the Peace brought by something worth while. Such personal gratification arises from aim beyond personality.

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  Strong, Jobs, Men

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• A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Thinking, Ideas, Vacuums

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.225, David R. Godine Publisher

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• The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.

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  Justice, Citizens, Force

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.93, David R. Godine Publisher

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• The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.

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  Science, Aim, Particular

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• The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Philosophy, Danger, Chiefs

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

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• From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

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  Music, Education, Children

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Men, Boredom, Useless

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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  Differences, Experience

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Art, Patterns, Recognition

  Dialogues (1954) (entry for 10 June 1943)

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• There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so obvious that people do not know what they are assuming because no other way of putting things has ever occurred to them. With these assumptions a certain limited number of types of philosophic systems are possible, and this group of systems constitutes the philosophy of the epoch.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Philosophy, Numbers, People

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

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  Art, Travel, Adventure

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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.

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  Zero, Math, Needs

  Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.43, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]

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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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  Philosophical, Writing, Talking

  1911 Introduction to Mathematics.

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• Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.

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  Character, Personality, Encounters

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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  Beauty, Art, Peace

  "Adventures of Ideas".

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• Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

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  Religion, Atheism, Lasts

  Alfred North Whitehead (2011). “Religion in the Making”, p.26, Cambridge University Press

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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.

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  Wisdom, Ambition, Virtue

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• Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Soul, Reason

  ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1925). “SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD”

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