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Re: ~ Alfred North Whitehead Quotes ~
« Reply #15 on: November 14, 2013, 10:54:46 AM »
The total absence of humour in the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
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Re: ~ Alfred North Whitehead Quotes ~
« Reply #16 on: November 14, 2013, 10:55:11 AM »
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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Re: ~ Alfred North Whitehead Quotes ~
« Reply #17 on: November 14, 2013, 10:55:38 AM »
The total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
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Re: ~ Alfred North Whitehead Quotes ~
« Reply #18 on: November 14, 2013, 10:56:08 AM »
The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.
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Re: ~ Alfred North Whitehead Quotes ~
« Reply #19 on: November 14, 2013, 10:56:35 AM »
The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past and it is the future.
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Re: ~ Alfred North Whitehead Quotes ~
« Reply #20 on: November 14, 2013, 10:57:03 AM »
From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
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Re: ~ Alfred North Whitehead Quotes ~
« Reply #21 on: November 14, 2013, 10:57:33 AM »
A civilized society is one that exhibits the five qualities of truth beauty adventure art and peace.
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Re: ~ Alfred North Whitehead Quotes ~
« Reply #22 on: November 14, 2013, 10:58:04 AM »
The major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur.
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Re: ~ Alfred North Whitehead Quotes ~
« Reply #23 on: November 14, 2013, 10:58:32 AM »
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
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Re: ~ Alfred North Whitehead Quotes ~
« Reply #24 on: November 14, 2013, 10:59:07 AM »
There are no whole truths. All truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
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Re: ~ Alfred North Whitehead Quotes ~
« Reply #25 on: November 14, 2013, 10:59:34 AM »
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
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Re: ~ Alfred North Whitehead Quotes ~
« Reply #26 on: November 14, 2013, 11:00:07 AM »
If a dog jumps into your lap it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing it is because your lap is warmer.
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Re: ~ Alfred North Whitehead Quotes ~
« Reply #27 on: November 14, 2013, 11:00:39 AM »
Every organism requires an environment of friends partly to shield it from violent changes and partly to supply it with its wants.
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Re: ~ Alfred North Whitehead Quotes ~
« Reply #28 on: November 14, 2013, 11:01:12 AM »
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.
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Re: ~ Alfred North Whitehead Quotes ~
« Reply #29 on: November 14, 2013, 11:01:46 AM »
A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied he is content.
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