Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life; and when we include the quality in… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of infinitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operations of daily life. No one goes… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive.… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life; wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of infinitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are cavalry charges in… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
