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One Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the pupil has got…
- I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from…
- There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations
- The many become one and are increased by one.
- It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation…
- "One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this…
- I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his;…
- The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a…
- In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not…
- Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the…
- The term many presupposes the term one , and the term one presupposes the term many.
- No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
- The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
- The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy…
- One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
- I consider Christian theology to be one of the greatest disasters of the human race.
- I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike…
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle