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«The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.»
«If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Cats,
Dogs
| Keywords:
fond, fonder, fondest, get the jump, jumps, jump on, jump out, jump up, lap, Lapped, lapping, laps, warmer
«No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Solidarity
| Keywords:
achieves, acknowledge, acknowledging, confident, gratitude, the help
«Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Action,
Words
| Keywords:
Acts, out in, passed, suffice, sufficed, suffices, sufficing
«Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge»
«I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Belief,
Religion
| Keywords:
deeply, fond, joke, noticed, religious person, suspicious
«Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination»
«Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Life,
Mind,
Purpose
| Keywords:
finite, finitude, grasp, infinitude, infinitudes, possibilities, surrounded
«Religion is the last refuge of human savagery»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
refuge, savagery
«The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, Seek simplicity and distrust it»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Simplicity
| Keywords:
distrust, guiding, motto, philosopher, simplicity
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