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"Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them." — Alfred North Whitehead
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"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious." — Alfred North Whitehead
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"Seek simplicity but distrust it." — Alfred North Whitehead
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"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy." — Alfred North Whitehead
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"Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge." — Alfred North Whitehead
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"Every philosophy is tinged with the colouring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning." — Alfred North Whitehead
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"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." — Alfred North Whitehead
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"It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression." — Alfred North Whitehead
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"It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious." — Alfred North Whitehead
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"Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows." — Alfred North Whitehead
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"Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude." — Alfred North Whitehead
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"The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals." — Alfred North Whitehead
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"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." — Alfred North Whitehead
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"The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development." — Alfred North Whitehead
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"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." — Alfred North Whitehead
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"Without adventure civilization is in full decay." — Alfred North Whitehead
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"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason." — Alfred North Whitehead
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"Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended." — Alfred North Whitehead
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"Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe." — Alfred North Whitehead
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"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order." — Alfred North Whitehead
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"Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it." — Alfred North Whitehead
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