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Sense Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
- Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.
- In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal…
- Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old…
- Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment...
- In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked…
- Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large.…
- Common sense is genius in homespun.
- With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more…
- 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,…
- Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.
- In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.
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