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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes: Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
         

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.


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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
         



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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.



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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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