Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
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The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.Alfred North Whitehead
There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.
Alfred North Whitehead
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
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War can protect it cannot create.
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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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But in the prevalent discussion of classes, there are illegitimate transitions to the notions of a 'nexus' and of a 'proposition'. The appeal to a class to perform the services of a proper entity is exactly analogous to an appeal to an imaginary terrier to kill a real rat.
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