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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

#even #finite #grasp #infinite #infinitude

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#civilized #only #those #understood #who

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

#coloring #emerges #every #explicitly #imaginative

Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide. ↗

— Stephen Evans

#nothing #thanksgiving #toast

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#extraordinary #intelligence #obvious #takes

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#directed #life #mechanism #offensive #repetitious

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#acquire #animal #become #god #himself

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#creative #mankind #periods #prolific #seldom

Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#mind #obvious #seldom #simple #solutions

The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#first #new #question #silly #some