Adherence Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

“As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.” quote by Alfred North Whitehead — Download Open image

“As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.”

Alfred North Whitehead

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For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow…

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Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.

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Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.

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On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.

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The many become one and are increased by one.

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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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No one is born with good character; it's not a hereditary trait. And it isn't determined by a single noble act. Character is established…

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Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone…

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Some communities will be abandoned, others will struggle along, others will split, others will flourish, gain members, and be duplicated elsewhere. Each community must win and hold the voluntary adherence of its members. No pattern is imposed on everyone, and the result will be one pattern if and only if everyone voluntarily chooses to live in accordance with that pattern…

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Devotion to the facts will always give the pleasures of recognition; adherence to the rules of design, the pleasures of order and certainty.

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That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it is in…

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What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the higher instincts would bring to a finely organized human being. It may appear as prophesy or as poesy...should these faculties have free play, I believe they will open up new, deeper and purer sources of joyous…

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