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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.


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ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into th...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nigh...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emer...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Philosophy is the product of wonder.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Common sense is genius in homespun.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth whil...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodim...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Necessity is the mother of invention is a silly proverb. Necessity is the mother of futile dodges is...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion w...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that,...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbour...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to u...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out o...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Seek simplicity but distrust it.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanisms of the universe.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice ...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD It is the first step in sociological wisdom, to recognize that the major advances in civilisation ar...
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