Alfred North Whitehead ,quotes

Religion is the last refuge of...

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

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The safest general characteriz...

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

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Almost all new ideas have a ce...

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

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Our minds are finite, and yet ...

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.

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Art is the imposing of a patte...

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

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I would be a billionaire if I ...

I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.

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It is in literature that the c...

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom gr...

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

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Speak out in acts; the time fo...

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

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An enormous part of our mature...

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

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But you can catch yourself ent...

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

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Every philosophy is tinged wit...

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

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Human life is driven forward b...

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

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I have always noticed that dee...

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.

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It requires a very unusual min...

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

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The absolute pacifist is a bad...

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.

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The task of a university is th...

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.

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We think in generalities, but ...

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

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I have suffered a great deal f...

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.

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The vitality of thought is in ...

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

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