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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

«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»
«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»
«The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato»
«The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals»
«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.»
«Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.»
«Seek simplicity but distrust it»
«We think in generalities, but we live 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»

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