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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

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  Mirrors, World, Location

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.

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  Determination, Opinion, Preservation

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature.

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  Mistake, Talking, Law

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.363, David R. Godine Publisher

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• The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

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  Life, Time, Inspiration

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.

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  Independent, Conversation, Circumstances

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• The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.

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  Beauty, Everyday, Foundation

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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.

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  Stars, Attitude, Sunset

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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 to the devil.

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  Inspirational, Truth, Science

  Dialogues prologue (1954)

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• It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

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  Future, Science, Merit

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.

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  Style, Mind, Lasts

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.

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  Philosopher

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• I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.

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  Religious, Affection, Persons

  Church and Home (published by United Methodist Church, and Evangelical United Brethren Church), Volume 1, p. 21, 1964.

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• The vitality of thought is in adventure. Idea's won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervour, live for it, and, if need be, die for it. Their inheritors receive the idea, perhaps now strong and successful, but without inheriting the fervour; so the idea settles down to a comfortable middle age, turns senile, and dies.

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  Strong, Adventure, Science

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

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• How the past perishes is how the future becomes.

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  Past

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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  Race, Religion, Would Be

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• When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.

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  Average, Bottom

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• In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.

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  Learning, Order, Firsts

  Alfred North Whitehead (1968). “Modes of Thought”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.

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  Memories, Vivid, Anticipation

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• Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

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  Life, Symbolism, Fancy

  Alfred North Whitehead (1985). “Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect”, p.61, Fordham Univ Press

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• God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality.

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  Creativity, Men, Creating

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.366, David R. Godine Publisher

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• The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad... Truth matters because of beauty.

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  Beauty, Discovery, Matter

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• 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.

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  Life, Math, Mind

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.160, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.

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  Mind, Impressive, Metaphysics

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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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• Problems are only opportunities in disquise.

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  Opportunity, Problem

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