It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I consider Christian theology to be one of the greatest disasters of the human race. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. — 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
I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race. — 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 is what an individual does with his solitariness.” — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more… — 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
