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Humans Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
- Many a scientist has patiently designed experiments for the purpose of substantiating his belief that animal operations are motivated by no purposes. He has perhaps…
- The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.
- On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.
- Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
- The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of God's agency in…
- In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking…
- The way in which the persecution of Galileo has been remembered is a tribute to the quiet commencement of the most intimate change in outlook…
- Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.
- Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.
- Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.
- The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a…
- Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for…
- We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days...…
- It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.
- Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.
- Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.
- The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.
- Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
- Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
- The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
- I consider Christian theology to be one of the greatest disasters of the human race.
- I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike…
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
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- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong