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Entity Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- The point of mathematics is that in it we have always got rid of the particular instance, and even of any particular sorts of entities.…
- To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more…
- We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days...…
- The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity…
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- The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. — Frederic Bastiat
- In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported… — Christopher Alexander
- But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe that when… — Benjamin Carson
- When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations… — John Henrik Clarke
- It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature.… — Tori Amos
- The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to… — Eckhart Tolle
- Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that 'the… — Ayn Rand
- We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Suicide thwarts the plan of the entity which sends out the personality. Fortunately, the entity is far beyond the reach of man's… — Manly Hall
- Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows… — George Henry Lewes
- Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity. — Erich Fromm
- If we dwell in spirit, or Soul, we are living in happiness, for Soul is a happy entity. It is seldom anything… — Paul Twitchell