It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“We cannot think first and act afterwards. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only guide it… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience… — 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
It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and… — 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
