Alfred North Whitehead - Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we ar...

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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.

Alfred North Whitehead

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Unser Geist ist endlich, und doch sind auch unter diesen Umständen der Endlichkeit unendlich viele Möglichkeiten gegeben, und der Sinn des Lebens besteht darin, so viel wie möglich aus dieser Unendlichkeit heraus zu erfassen.

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