Alfred North Whitehead ✓

(1861–1947) writer United Kingdom

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[Wikipedia] Alfred North Whitehead was an English mathematician and philosopher. He created the philosophical school known as process philosophy, which has been applied in a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology.

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• Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most… Aim
• From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery. Beginning
• ...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity. Complexity
• The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. Divine
• Every really new idea looks crazy at first. Courage
• The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy… Buy
• Seek simplicity, and distrust it. Creativity
• The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact,… Account
• Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting… All
• The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity… Centuries
• The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of… Amplitude
• Error is the price we pay for progress. Error
• The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in… All
• The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. Deepest
• Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well. Education
• The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. Amid
• The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations. Experience
• It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they… Advances
• Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance. Activity
• In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles. Details
• One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering. Animal
• I consider Christian theology to be one of the greatest disasters of the human race. Christian
• Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Doe
• As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death. Adherence
• I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike… Christianity

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