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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Brutal Courage Firm Force Heroes Reason Resolve True True Courage Virtue Vulgar

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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.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Circumstances Even Finite Grasp Infinite Life Minds Much Our Out Possibilities Purpose Surrounded

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It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Contemplate Extraordinary Intelligence Obvious Takes

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Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: About Analysis Bother Does Familiar Happen Mankind Mind Obvious Requires Them Things Things Happen Undertake Unusual Very

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There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Devil Plays Them Treat Truths Trying Whole

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Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Civilizations Civilized Only Those Understood Who

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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Art Change Order Preserve Progress

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Advances Civilization Extending Important Number Operations Perform Them Thinking Which Without

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Acts Deeds Only Out Passed Speak Suffice Time Will Words

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Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Analysis Mind Obvious Seldom Simple Solutions Takes Undertake Unusual Very

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Mathematician

Born: February 15th, 1861

Died: December 30th, 1947

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