Alfred Whitehead
Alfred Whitehead
Alfred Ernest Whiteheadwas an English-born Canadian composer, organist, choirmaster, music educator, painter, whose works are held in a number of important private collections, and an internationally recognized authority in the field of philately. His The Squared-Circle Cancellations of Canada received its third edition shortly after his death...
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth15 February 1861
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The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.
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Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt egerneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life
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The Day of Judgment is an important notion: but that Day is always with us
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There is a self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.