On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I consider Christian theology to be one of the greatest disasters of the human race. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God. — 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 pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. — 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
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
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
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
Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on… — 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
Many a scientist has patiently designed experiments for the purpose of substantiating his belief that animal operations are motivated by no purposes.… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The way in which the persecution of Galileo has been remembered is a tribute to the quiet commencement of the most intimate… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more… — 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
The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic… — 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
We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were… — 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
