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• The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Simplicity, Philosopher, Motto

  Alfred North Whitehead (2015). “The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures”, p.104, Cambridge University Press

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

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  Art, Soul, Reason

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

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• Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Religion, Atheism, Lasts

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

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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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• 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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• What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.

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  Time, Truth, Majority

  Dialogues (1954) (entry for 30 Aug. 1941)

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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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• No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

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  Religion, Followers, Type

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Philosophy is the product of wonder.

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  Philosophy, Wonder, Products

  Alfred North Whitehead (2012). “Nature and Life”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

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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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• Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.

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  Thinking, Speech, Speak

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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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• Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.

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  Interesting, Purpose, Study

  Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Whitehead's The Function of Reason”, p.9, Agora Publications, Inc.

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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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• Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

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  Art, Self, Secret

  "Les Amis du Cinéma" by Alfred North Whitehead, (Paris, October 1, 1952); as quotes in "Telling It Like It Is" by Paul Bowden, (p. 182), 2011.

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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 mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact, then it is not going too far to say that the souls of men are the gift from language to mankind. The account of the sixth day should be written: He gave them speech, and they became souls.

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  Men, Soul, Speech

  "Modes of Thought". Book by Alfred North Whitehead, 1938.

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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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• Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

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  Inspirational, Courage, Crazy

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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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• 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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• No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.

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  God, Reason, Given

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.178, 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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• I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from the charge of anti-intellectualism, which rightly or wrongly has been associated with it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Preoccupation, Type, Rescue

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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