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Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.
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The first man who noticed the analogy between a group of seven fishes and a group of seven days made a notable advance in the history of thought.
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... We cannot think first and act afterwards. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
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Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.
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I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from the charge of anti-intellectualism, which rightly or wrongly has been associated with it.
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Alfred North Whitehead
Born:
February 15, 1861
Died:
December 30, 1947
(aged 86)
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