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Understood Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
- In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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