For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself… — 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
The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there… — 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
We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past… — 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 afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice. — 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
Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger. — 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
In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are… — 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
