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• Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Christ, Dogmatism, Anti Christ

  Alfred North Whitehead (1968). “Modes of Thought”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

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  Inspirational, Courage, Crazy

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• The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.

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  Power, Use, Force

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.87, David R. Godine Publisher

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• The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.

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  Earth, Rise Above

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• The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

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  Math, Spirit, Madness

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.

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  Inspirational, Life, Religion

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• Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.

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  Song, Nature, Congratulations

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

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• As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

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  Mean, Religion, Adherence

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.

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  Knowledge, Principles, Details

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

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  Expression, Humanity, Literature

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.

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  Christian, Race, Religion

  "Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead".

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• Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

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  Science, Ideas, Innovation

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.

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  Philosophy, Errors, Chiefs

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Value is coextensive with reality.

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  Reality, Values

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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.

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  May, Paradox, Mood

  Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.71, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]

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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.

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  Courage, Travel, Adventure

  "Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead" by Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price, Ch. 12, (p. 100), 1954.

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• The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.

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  Art, Soul, Body

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• Democracy...is a society in which the unbeliever feels undisturbed and at home. If there were only a half dozen unbelievers in America, their well-being would be a test of our democracy.

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  Home, America, Safety

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• The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.

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  Fate, Ideas, Mind

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.

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  Mind, Way, Wells

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• With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more powerful.

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  Powerful, Sight, Ideas

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.228, David R. Godine Publisher

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• The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.

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  Business, Danger, Fixed

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

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• Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.

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  Friendship, Want, Shields

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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  Humanity, Quality, Human Nature

  Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.142, Open Road Media

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• The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.

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  People, Tradition, Concerned

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