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  • Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.

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    Adventure   Science   Past  
    Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

  • We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.

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    Past   Thinking   Details  
    Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.20, Open Road Media

  • A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

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    Real   Adventure   Past  
    Alfred North Whitehead (1975). “Whitehead's American Essays in Social Philosophy”, Greenwood Publishing Group

  • Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.

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    Past   Errors   Language  
    Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.57, Open Road Media

  • 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 the past, and it is the future.

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    Wisdom   Future   Past  
    Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

  • Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.

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    Life   Past   Emotion  
    Alfred North Whitehead (2012). “Nature and Life”, p.92, Cambridge University Press

  • The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

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    Past   Use It Or Lose It   Use Of Knowledge  
    Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

  • The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.

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    Adventure   Past   Greatness  
    Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

  • How the past perishes is how the future becomes.

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    Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

  • Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.

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    Past   Length Of Life   Progress  
    ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1925). “SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD”

  • Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.

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    Learning   Past   Errors  
    Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.57, Open Road Media
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Alfred North Whitehead

  • Born: February 15, 1861
  • Died: December 30, 1947
  • Occupation: Mathematician
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