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"Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it."
- Alfred North Whitehead, More quotation on Quotations. |
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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."
- Alfred North Whitehead, More quotation on Quotations. |
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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."
- Alfred North Whitehead, More quotation on Pets. |
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"Seek simplicity, and distrust it."
- Alfred North Whitehead, More quotation on Simplicity. |
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"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy."
- Alfred North Whitehead, More quotation on Age. |
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"The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them."
- Alfred North Whitehead. |
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"We think in generalities, but we live in detail."
- Alfred North Whitehead. |
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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, Dialogues (1954). |
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"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them."
- Alfred North Whitehead, Introduction to Mathematics (1911). |