Mankind Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either ourselves or others…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

All phenomena of which we are aware take place in our own minds, and therefore the only thing we have to look at is…

— Aleister Crowley

Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can we so…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Before familiarity can turn into awareness the familiar must be stripped of its inconspicuousness; we must give up assuming that the object in question…

— Bertold Brecht

We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.

— Roger Ebert

Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange.

— Rene Magritte

I think we're often guilty of gravitating towards the familiar. Even if we recognize that certain patterns are unsatisfying and destructive, there can still…

— Laura van den Berg

Familiar things are a comfort to us all.

— Andy Rooney

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

— Mark Twain

What seems natural to us is probably just something familiar in a long tradition that has forgotten the unfamiliar source from which it arose.…

— Martin Heidegger

“Philosophy, beginning in wonder, as Plato and Aristotle said, is able to fancy everything different from what it is. It sees the familiar as…

— William James