92 ordspråk av Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
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Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it
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Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination
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Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
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I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't
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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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I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.
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Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
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If a dog jumps in 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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In all education the main cause of failure is staleness
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In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.
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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory
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In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed
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