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 human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The degeneracy of mankind is distinguished from its uprise by the dominance of chill abstractions, divorced from aesthetic content.” — 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 Universe is vast. Nothing is more curious than the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes… — 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
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
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
