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Alfred North Whitehead
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Alfred North Whitehead
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.
Alfred North Whitehead
If a dog jumps in 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
Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
Alfred North Whitehead
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
Alfred North Whitehead
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
Alfred North Whitehead
There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
Alfred North Whitehead
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues (1954)
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Alfred North Whitehead, Introduction to Mathematics (1911)
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
 
 
 
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