Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.


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The power of God is the worship He inspires. That religion is strong which in its ritual and its mod...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it i...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refu...
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But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and tha...
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without t...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuse...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real knowledge, it...
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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
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Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
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The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into th...
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Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nigh...
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Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emer...
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Philosophy is the product of wonder.
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Common sense is genius in homespun.
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The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of...
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The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth whil...
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There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodim...
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Necessity is the mother of invention is a silly proverb. Necessity is the mother of futile dodges is...
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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
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In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion w...
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But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that,...
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Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbour...
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Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to u...
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Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
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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 o...
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Seek simplicity but distrust it.
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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanisms of the universe.
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The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice ...
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It is the first step in sociological wisdom, to recognize that the major advances in civilisation ar...
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