Certain Historic Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

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Alfred North Whitehead has 279 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our…
• 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…
• 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…
• The vitality of thought is in adventure. Idea's won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its…
• Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past…
• The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. . . . We are told that by its aid the stars…
• The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience…
• The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of…
• 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.

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