“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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“Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.”
Alfred North Whitehead
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“Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.”
Alfred North Whitehead
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“It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.”
Alfred North Whitehead
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“There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.”
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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“True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.”
Alfred North Whitehead
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“Common sense is genius in homespun.”
Alfred North Whitehead
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“Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.”
Alfred North Whitehead
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“Without adventure civilization is in full decay.”
Alfred North Whitehead
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“Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.”
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 deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.”
Alfred North Whitehead
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“We think in generalities, but we live in detail.”
Alfred North Whitehead
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“Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.”
Alfred North Whitehead
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“Seek simplicity but distrust it.”
Alfred North Whitehead
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“Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.”
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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“Philosophy is the product of wonder.”
Alfred North Whitehead
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“Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.”
Alfred North Whitehead
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Life
