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“It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.”
― Alfred North Whitehead

“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.”
― Alfred North Whitehead

“We think in generalities, but we live in details.”
― Alfred North Whitehead

“Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.”
― Alfred North Whitehead

“Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.”
― Alfred Whitehead

“Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.”
― Alfred North Whitehead

“In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of a defeat; but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress towards a victory.”
― Alfred North Whitehead

“Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.”
― Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World

“specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.”
― Weber Max, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

“The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.”
― Max Weber

“Calvinist believers were psychologically isolated. Their distance from God could only be precariously bridged, and their inner tensions only partially relieved, by unstinting, purposeful labor.”
― Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism

“Únicamente quien está seguro de no doblegarse cuando, desde su punto de vista, el mundo se muestra demasiado necio o demasiado abyecto para aquello que él está ofreciéndole; únicamente quien, ante todas estas adversidades, es capaz de oponer un "sin embargo"; únicamente un hombre constituido de esta manera podrá demostrar su "vocación para la política".”
― Max Weber, The Vocation Lectures: Science as a Vocation/Politics as a Vocation

“The process of sanctifying life could thus almost take on the character of a business enterprise. ”
― Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

“The intellect, like all cultural values, has created an aristocracy based on the possession of rational culture and independent of all personal ethical qualities of man. The aristocracy of intellect is hence an unbrotherly aristocracy.”
― Max Weber

“Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on.”
― Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism