Ch. 13: "Requisites for Social Progress", p. 280
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Sensitiveness without impulse spells decadence, and impulse without sensitiveness spells brutality.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Source: Wikiquote: "Alfred North Whitehead" (Quotes, 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925): Science and the Modern World: Lowell Lectures, 1925 (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1925))
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About Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead, OM (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy, which today has found application to a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology, among other areas.
About Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead, OM (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy, which today has found application to a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology, among other areas.
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