Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

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

Alfred North Whitehead in Dialogues (1954)
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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

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The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

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There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

Alfred North Whitehead in Introduction to Mathematics (1911)
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There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

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I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.

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