World Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

18 World quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

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Alfred North Whitehead’s thought treats reality as an evolving process. In this set of eighteen quotes about the world, you’ll encounter his nuanced perspective on change, interconnection, and the flow of experience.

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In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no…

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What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information.…

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Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human…

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You think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day; I think it is what it seems…

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God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process…

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The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble…

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Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.

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In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is…

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In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even…

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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…

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The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing…

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The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting world…

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Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the…

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The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn…

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The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of…

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Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be…

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The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of…

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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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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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