Quotes By Alfred North Whitehead
A clash of doctrines is not a disaster--it is an opportunity.
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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
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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.
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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.
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
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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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We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
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