English - Mathematician | February 15, 1861 - December 30, 1947
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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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
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Seek simplicity but distrust it.
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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
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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.
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If a dog jumps into 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.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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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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No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
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It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
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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.
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