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Quotes by Alfred Whitehead

The many become one, and are increased by one.

Alfred North Whitehead : British mathematician & philosopher
Alfred Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
 
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It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization.  But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages.

Alfred North Whitehead : British mathematician & philosopher
Alfred Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
 
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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of a defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress towards a victory.

Alfred North Whitehead : British mathematician & philosopher
Alfred Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
 
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The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.

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Value is coextensive with reality.

Alfred North Whitehead : British mathematician & philosopher
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The major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

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To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.

Alfred North Whitehead : British mathematician & philosopher
Alfred Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim.   Wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame,  Obtained with labor, for mankind employed,  And then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

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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.

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