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“The mountain endures. But when after ages it has worn away, it has gone. If a replica arises, it is yet a new mountain.

A colour is eternal. It haunts time like a spirit. It comes and it goes. But where it comes, it is the same colour. It neither survives nor does it live.”
― Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World

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“It is a false dichotomy to think of Nature and Man. Mankind is a factor in Nature which exhibits in its most intense form the plasticity of Nature.”
― Alfred North Whitehead

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“The purpose of thinking is to let the ideas die instead of us dying.”
― Alfred North Whitehead

tags: ideas, thinking

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“Russell is a Platonic dialogue in himself.”
― Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

tags: bertrand-russell

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“We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again, Drawing up from the great roots.”
― Robert Bly, Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems – Five Decades of Powerful American Poetry with Timeless Classics

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