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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
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Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population re-act to the material events which they encounter.
The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.
No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.
Governments are best classified by considering who are the "somebodies" they are in fact endeavoring to satisfy.
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.
As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.
There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.
The deliberate aim at Peace very easily passes into its bastard substitute, Anaesthesia.
Every philosophy is tinged with the colouring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its trains of reasoning.
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