Religion is the last refuge of human savagery

Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

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When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.

When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.

When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded...

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded...

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to...

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to...

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge

In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not...

In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not...

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the...

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the...

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things...

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things...

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you;...

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you;...

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise...

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise...

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence...

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence...

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

By the Way of the warrior is meant death. The Way of the warrior is...

By the Way of the warrior is meant death. The Way of the warrior is...