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Do not teach too many subject...

Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Democracy...is a society in w...

Democracy...is a society in which the unbeliever feels undisturbed and at home. If there were only a half dozen unbelievers in America, their well-being would be a test of our democracy.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Whenever a text-book is writt...

Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to teach from it. Of course it will be difficult to teach from it. It it were easy, the book ought to be burned.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

No religion can be considered...

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

The art of progress is to pre...

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Apart from blunt truth, our l...

Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

No reason can be given for th...

No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Peace is self-control at its ...

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.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Inventive genius requires ple...

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Our rate of progress is such ...

Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Religion is the vision of som...

Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realised; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Human nature loses its most p...

Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

The progress of Science consi...

The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting world are but examples of a few general relations, called laws. To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

We must not expect simple ans...

We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

In a living civilization ther...

In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Without adventure all civiliz...

Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Every epoch has its character...

Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

You cannot evade quantity. Yo...

You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Inventive genius requires ple...

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much closer to the truth. The basis of growth of modern invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

The only use of a knowledge o...

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

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