Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort.
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I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
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Educate yourself: Read up on current events and books.
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My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.
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I've been so blessed to have the opportunities that I've had.
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Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.
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When I was growing up, there were so many musicals you could watch. I like the fantasy of musicals and I love music.
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It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom.
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It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity - of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.
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I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
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All our symbols have the same purpose; words are merely the symbols we use most commonly. The function of words in human thought is to stand for things which are not present to the senses, and allow the mind to manipulate them-things, concepts, ideas, everything that does not have a physical reality in front of us now.
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God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
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The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort.
