Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Democracy...is a society in which the unbeliever feels undisturbed and at home. If there were only a half dozen unbelievers in America,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
In England if something goes wrong--say, if one finds a skunk in the garden--he writes to the family solicitor, who proceeds to… — 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
