Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose. — 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
Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
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 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 Image
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
