Alfred North Whitehead

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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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. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Religion is the last refuge of human savagery. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

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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

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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

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