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Interest Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation…
- The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives,…
- Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the "self" has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.
- It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society…
- 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…
- Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that…
More Interest Quotes
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. — David Attenborough
- It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there… — David Attenborough
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he… — Sai Baba
- Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility… — Irving Babbitt
- A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by… — Alain Badiou
- He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest. — Abu Bakr
- I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like… — Alec Baldwin
- I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver… — Tammy Baldwin
- The only thing I would unequivocally say is that I have never had any interest in romantic comedy I just couldn't do… — Christian Bale
- In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me… — Christian Bale