Refuge Quote by Alfred North Whitehead Download Open image “Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.” — Alfred North Whitehead ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Refuge Religion Savagery
It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence. — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
“Savages measure religion by the harvest of converts, the civilized find holiness in helping beyond religion.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“While religions could not liberate humans from the agony of the human condition…they did provide an invaluable way to withdraw from the brink of… — Jeremy Griffith Copy Share Image
Wherever a people have grown savage in arms so that human laws have no longer any place among it, the only powerful means of… — Georgie Henley Copy Share Image
“Time by time the human being needs a love more than religion, at that time the world more peacefully” — Giharu Si Perempuan Gunung Copy Share Image
“Religion comforts us for the defeat of our will to power. It adds new worlds to ours, and thus brings us hope of new… — Emil Cioran 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
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The great gift of a spiritual path is coming to trust that you can find a way to true refuge. You realize that you… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect… — Laozi Copy Share Image
In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening, spreading not… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“So they will pursue their questions from cause to cause, till at last you take refuge in the will of God—in other words, the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Going for refuge to Buddha,Dharma, and Sangha means that we apply effort to receiving Buddha's blessings, to putting Dharma into practice, and to receiving… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
