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But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.


Alfred North Whitehead  Alfred North Whitehead
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Alfred North Whitehead OM FRS FBA (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy,[21] which today has found application to a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology, among other areas.

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If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

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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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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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We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.

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

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