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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes: Ideas won't keep: something must be done about them.
         

Ideas won't keep: something must be done about them.


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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.



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...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.



Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.



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