Complexes Quote by Alfred North Whitehead Download Open image “Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.” — Alfred North Whitehead ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Complexes Human beings Humans Individual Social Social systems Structure
Society must be organized in such a way that mans social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him. — William James Copy Share Image
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's very easy… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes - within the… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Is it true that human beings are nothing but the products of their social environment? And if it is not true, what justification can… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The social states of human kinds Are made by multitudes of minds, And after multitudes of years A little human growth appears Worth having,… — John Masefield 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
Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
For many of us, work is the one place where we feel appreciated. The things that we long to experience at home - pride… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
People are messy and complex, particularly in the homosexual world. — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock,… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state. — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of mountains, aiguilles,… — Gaston Rebuffat Copy Share Image
Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Significantly, God in Genesis 1 pronounces the rest of creation "good" before humanity is created. The psalmist and the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel… — Rodney Clapp Copy Share Image
Naval dominance of European waters was the largest, longest, most complex and expensive project ever undertaken by the British state and society. — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes. The hero in each of us is required to answer the… — James Hollis Copy Share Image