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Alfred North Whitehead

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


— 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 art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.


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


— Alfred North Whitehead


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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.


— Alfred North Whitehead


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We think in generalities, but we live in detail.


— Alfred North Whitehead


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What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.


— Alfred North Whitehead


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Whitehead's political views sometimes appear to be libertarian without the label. He believed that "there are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. 1925a.

Alfred North Whitehead OM FRS (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English-American mathematician and philosopher. He co-authored the epochal Principia Mathematica with Russell and later wrote the metaphysical treatise Process and Reality.

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