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«The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.»
«Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
Advances, extending, operations
«Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it»
«Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long»
«Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Intelligence
| Keywords:
apprehend, apprehended, apprehending, distinct, quickness, wisely
«When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.»
«In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
marked, oncoming, transition, well-marked
«Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Achievement
| Keywords:
accomplishments, The Animals
«In all education the main cause of failure is staleness»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
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Education,
Failure
| Keywords:
main, staleness
«Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
aimed, derived, enjoyment
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