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

Alfred North Whitehead
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  1. When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. - Friedrich Nietzsche

  2. There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition. - Siri Hustvedt

  3. In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution. - Zadie Smith

  4. The truth is not so important as the leaving of it behind. - Clare Francis

  5. Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come... - A.E. Housman

More Quotes By Alfred North Whitehead
  1. Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.

  2. The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural...

  3. Religion carries two sorts of people in two entirely opposite directions: the mild and gentle people it carries towards mercy and justice; the persecuting people it carries into fiendish sadistic cruelty. Mind you, though this may seem to justify the eighteenth-century Age of Reason in...

  4. Wisdom is the fruit of a balanced development.

  5. In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

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