Adventure Quote by Alfred North Whitehead Download Open image “Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.” — Alfred North Whitehead ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adventure Clarification Patriotism Philosophy of Mind
Rationalism is the idea that we can ever understand anything about the state of being. It's a deathtrip. It always has been. . .… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Rationalism... is a secularized form of the belief in the power of the word of God. — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Rationalism is an attitude of readiness to listen to contrary arguments and to learn from experience... of admitting that "I may be wrong and… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
We're living in interesting times, where people seem to be able to say things which are contrary to what you would call rationalism. — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
“Rationality is not unnecessary. It serves the chaos of knowledge. It serves feeling. It serves to get from this place to that place. But… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable. — Francis Parker Yockey 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
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I painted the words "GREAT ADVENTURE" in Beijing, Dallas, San Francisco, Copenhagen, and Japan. What it means to me is completely different to everybody… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film. — Jessica Yu Copy Share Image
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned by a… — Alexander Supertramp Chris McCandless Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
“Exactly. I think the original tantric Buddhists took notice of was some very wise old people who never studied in their youth, but took… — Joe Niemczura Copy Share Image
As an adventurer...I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end,… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“Love can give you such happiness, then can break the very heart it filled, leaving a hole that can never be fixed or protected… — Kevin McLeod Copy Share Image
“It always gave Wolf a peculiar thrill thus to tighten his grip upon his stick, thus to wrap himself more closely in his faded… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
