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What we perceive as the presen...

What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

The vastest knowledge of today...

The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India; and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

The paradox is now fully estab...

The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

The consequences of a plethora...

The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

An unflinching determination t...

An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

People make the mistake of tal...

People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Faith in the possibility of sc...

Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

But harmony is limitation. Thu...

But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

There is no nature at an insta...

There is no nature at an instant.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Through and through the world ...

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. . . . How large? It is no use saying the radium is scarce. . . . How scarce? 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

There will be some fundamental...

There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so obvious that people do not know what they are assuming because no other way of putting things has ever occurred to them. With these assumptions a certain limited number of types of philosophic systems are possible, and this group of systems constitutes the philosophy of the epoch.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Religion is the reaction of hu...

Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

The importance of an individua...

The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

It belongs to the self-respect...

It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

A great society is a society i...

A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Routine is the god of every so...

Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

The fact of the religious visi...

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 flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Philosophy asks the simple que...

Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

In order to acquire learning, ...

In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

There is no greater hindrance ...

There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

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