Philosophy of Mind Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

14 Philosophy of Mind quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

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With 14 entries, Whitehead’s ideas sketch a view of mind as a dynamic, relational process. The snippets feel like a brief yet thought‑provoking lecture on how thoughts evolve.

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It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.

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The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.

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Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.

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Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.

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Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.

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From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

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We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide…

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There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the…

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its…

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The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that…

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“We cannot think first and act afterwards. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only guide it…

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The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience…

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Idea's won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its…

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It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and…

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For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested…

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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

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The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

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Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.

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Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.

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On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.

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It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present…

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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of infinitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of…

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The many become one and are increased by one.

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

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The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.

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Common sense is genius in homespun.

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Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.

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Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are cavalry charges in…

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