Alfred North Whitehead

(25 votes)   Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

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

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(20 votes)   Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

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(19 votes)   Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.

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(16 votes)   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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(16 votes)   It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

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(11 votes)   The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.

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(10 votes)   Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

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(231 votes)   Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

Alfred North Whitehead
1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher

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(212 votes)   But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

Alfred North Whitehead
1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher

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(100 votes)   Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them

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(84 votes)   Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Alfred North Whitehead
1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher

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(82 votes)   Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

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1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher

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(81 votes)   True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

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1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher

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(76 votes)   Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead
1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher

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