Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Above all things we must be aware of what I will call 'inert ideas' - that is to say, ideas that are… — 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
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
I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the… — 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 new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn… — 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
