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Common sense is genius in homespun.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Common Common Sense Genius Sense

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But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Aside Catch Certain Decided Destinies Entertaining Ideas Largely Others Our Personal Setting Think Where You Yourself I Think

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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Cannot Enormous Experience Expressed Mature Our Part Words

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Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Background Emerges Every Explicitly Imaginative Never Philosophy Reasoning Secret Some Train Which

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Philosophy is the product of wonder.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Philosophy Product Wonder

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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Apprehension Dim Driven Existing Forward General Human Human Life Language Life Notions Too

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Against Directed Life Mechanism Offensive Universe

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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Deepest Definition Life Tragedy Youth

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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Been Before Did Discover Everything Importance Said Somebody Who

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Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Human Last Refuge Religion Savagery

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Mathematician

Born: February 15th, 1861

Died: December 30th, 1947

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