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Philosoph, Mathematiker (USA, 1861 - 1947).

Alfred North Whitehead · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Alfred North Whitehead wäre heute 164 Jahre, 2 Monate, 29 Tage oder 59.988 Tage alt.

Geboren am 15.02.1861 in Ramsgate
Gestorben am 30.12.1947 in Cambridge
Sternzeichen: ♒ Wassermann

• In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even in defensive armor. In fact, nature began with producing animals encased in hard shells for defense against the ills of life. It also experimented in size. But smaller animals, without external armor, warm-blooded, sensitive, alert, have cleared those monsters off the face of the earth.

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• In the past, human life was lived in a bullock cart; in the future, it will be lived in an aeroplane; and the change of speed amounts to a difference in quality.

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• Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

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• It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.

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• It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.

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• Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the universe.

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• Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.

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• Philosophy begins in wonder, and at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

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• Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

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• The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

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• The first man who noticed the analogy between a group of seven fishes and a group of seven days made a notable advance in the history of thought.

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• The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.

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

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• The science of pure mathematics . . . may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.

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• The secondhandedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.

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• 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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• 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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