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«I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
altogether, a great deal, context, destroyed, distorted, great deal, incongruous, In Context, juxtaposition, quoted, quotes, quoting, sentence, suffered, writers
«The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
University
| Keywords:
affect, appreciation, issue, modes, The Creation, The Task
«The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
characterization, European, footnote, footnotes, philosophical, Plato, safest, The European, tradition
«The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Pacifism
| Keywords:
pacifist, pacifists, The Absolute, uphold
«Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Ambition,
Sharing,
Virtue,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
employed, enjoyed, labour, obtained
«Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Tranquility
| Keywords:
periods, prolific, stirred, stirred up, tranquility
«Seek simplicity but distrust it»
«We think in generalities, but we live in detail»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
detail, generalities, generality, in detail
«There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.»
«In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
contradiction, evolution, formal, formal logic, in progress, Marks, signal, step in
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