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Great Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures…
- The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.
- Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.
- Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.
- The way in which the persecution of Galileo has been remembered is a tribute to the quiet commencement of the most intimate change in outlook…
- It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been…
- A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.
- Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different…
- Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul's self-attainment. It justifies itself both…
- No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism…
- 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…
- The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in…
- I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike…
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