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Only Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.
- From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
- The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.
- Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
- There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations
- The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is…
- Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old…
- Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.
- 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…
- An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.
- The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.
- Democracy...is a society in which the unbeliever feels undisturbed and at home. If there were only a half dozen unbelievers in America, their well-being would…
- Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience.…
- Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
- Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
- ...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.
- 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…
- We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking…
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
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