Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians. — 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
The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor… — 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
Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do… — 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
In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodiments whatever field we explore - the… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Religion carries two sorts of people in two entirely opposite directions: the mild and gentle people it carries towards mercy and justice;… — 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
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
