No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
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The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.Alfred North Whitehead
Philosophy is the product of wonder.
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Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.
Alfred North Whitehead
It is as true to say that God is permanent and the World fluent, as that the World is permanent and God is fluent. It is as true to say that God is one and the World many, as that the World is one and God many. It is as true to say that, in comparison with the World, God is actual eminently, as that, in comparison with God, the World is actual eminently. It is as true to say that the World is immanent in God, as that God is immanent in the World. It is as true to say that God transcends the World, as that the World transcends God. It is as true to say that God creates the World, as that the World creates God.
Alfred North Whitehead
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 thepast, and it is the future.
Alfred North Whitehead
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.
Alfred North Whitehead
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