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Individual Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.
- The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.
- The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness…
- We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days...…
- In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till…
- Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.
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