ANAlfred North Whitehead

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Alfred North Whitehead

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01Undated

There are no whole truths. All truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

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02Undated

Routine is the god of every social system it is the seventh heaven of business the essential component in the success of every factory the ideal of every statesman.

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03Undated

A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied he is content.

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04Undated

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

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05Undated

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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06Undated

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

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07Undated

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

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08Undated

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

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09Undated

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

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10Undated

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

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11Undated

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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12Undated

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

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13Undated

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

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14Undated

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.

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15Undated

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

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16Undated

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

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17Undated

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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18Undated

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.

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