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• Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Religion, Human Nature, Reactions

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Attitude, Party, Progress

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the pupil has got to know in precise fashion. He will then cease from half-hearted attempts to worry his pupils with memorizing a lot of irrelevant stuff of inferior importance.

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  Teacher, Fashion, Teaching

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.36, 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 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 does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts; but until this has occurred, words do not count.

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  Men, Long, May

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

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  Doe, Penalties, Periods

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.272, David R. Godine Publisher

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• It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.

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  Self, Finals, Intellect

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

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• The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.

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  Silly, Creativity, Ideas

  "Dialogues of 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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  Real, People, History

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.20, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.

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  Clothes, Brain, Would Be

  "Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead" by Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price, Ch. 29, 1954.

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• In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions. Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

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  Math, Ideas, Issues

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.72, 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.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Beauty, Art, Peace

  "Adventures of Ideas".

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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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• Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.

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  Perception, Triumph, Negative

  Russell L. Kleinbach, Karl Marx, Alfred North Whitehead (1982). “Marx via process: Whitehead's potential contribution to Marxian social theory”

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• The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be ``Seek simplicity and distrust it.''

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  Fall, Science, Simple

  Alfred North Whitehead (1964). “The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures”, p.163, Cambridge University Press

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• No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Contemplation, Diagrams

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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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• Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.

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  Learning, Past, Errors

  Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.57, Open Road Media

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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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• Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.

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  Expression, Feelings, Desire

  Alfred North Whitehead (1925). “An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge”

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• Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

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  Progress, Evolution, Language

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• You think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day; I think it is what it seems like in the early morning when one first wakes from deep sleep.

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  Morning, Sleep, Thinking

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• It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Future, Civilization, Progress

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• The motive of success is not enough.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Success, Enough, Motive

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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