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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• The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts. All the… Absorbed
• The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention. Century
• The chief error in philosophy is overstatement. Chief
• Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought. Adventure
• Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must… Ask
• The term many presupposes the term one , and the term one presupposes the term many. Funny
• The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity,… Absorption
• Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that… Add
• Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour. Besetting
• A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself. Analyze
• The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage. Abolish
• Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton , I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry. Better
• Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. Art
• No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. Achieve
• Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. Advances
• Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. Begins
• If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is… Animal
• True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. Bravery
• No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism… Act
• Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. Death
• In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward… Contradiction
• There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil. All
• When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top. Average
• Seek simplicity but distrust it. Distrust
• The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it. Distrust

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