Adventure Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

— Alfred North Whitehead

I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure,…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment...

— Alfred North Whitehead

A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its…

— Alfred North Whitehead

The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the…

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and…

— Alfred North Whitehead

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Idea's won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its…

— Alfred North Whitehead

The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. They can persuade and can be persuaded by the disclosure of alternatives,…

— Alfred North Whitehead

The Universe is vast. Nothing is more curious than the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real,…

— Alfred North Whitehead

The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its…

— Alfred North Whitehead

It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and…

— Alfred North Whitehead