Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.Alfred North Whitehead
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
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The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
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It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
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Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify in its written structures the patterns which it is its purpose to convey. The pattern of the marks on paper is a particular instance of the pattern to be conveyed to thought. The algebraic method is our best approach to the expression of necessity, by reason of its reduction of accident to the ghostlike character of the real variable.
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