“If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.”
— Alfred North Whitehead
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No period of history has ever been
“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.”
— Alfred North Whitehead
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True courage is not the brutal force
“True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.”
— Alfred North Whitehead
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An enormous part of our mature experience
“An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.”
— Alfred North Whitehead
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No period of history has ever been
“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.”
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The art of progress is to preserve
“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.”
— Alfred North Whitehead
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It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate
“It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.”
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Art is the imposing of a pattern
“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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It is the business of the future
“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.”
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
“Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.”
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is
“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.”
— Alfred North Whitehead
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