Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
- We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision.
- Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
- A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as…
- Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
- It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery - Columbus…
- The vitality of thought is in adventure. Idea's won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervour,…
- Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures…
- The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. . . . We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and…
- The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.
- The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a…
- Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.
- The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.
- Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
- The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.
- Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.
- Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.
- It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the…
- From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
- A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.
- Philosophy is the product of wonder.