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Wisdom alone is true ambition'...

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

We must not expect simple answ...

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

Art flourishes where there is ...

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

A race preserves its vigor so ...

A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

It is impossible not to feel s...

It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery - Columbus when he first saw the Western shore, Pizarro when he stared at the Pacific Ocean, Franklin when the electric spark came from the string of his kite, Galileo when he first turned his telescope to the heavens. Such moments are also granted to students in the abstract regions of thought, and high among them must be placed the morning when Descartes lay in bed and invented the method

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

The vitality of thought is in ...

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Idea's won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervour, live for it, and, if need be, die for it. Their inheritors receive the idea, perhaps now strong and successful, but without inheriting the fervour; so the idea settles down to a comfortable middle age, turns senile, and dies.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Without adventure civilization...

Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

The study of mathematics is ap...

The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. . . . We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this greatest science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

It is more important that a pr...

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Religion is what a person does...

Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

The foundations of the world a...

The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

The teleology of the Universe ...

The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad... Truth matters because of beauty.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Knowledge is always accompanie...

Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

The great achievements of the ...

The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Ideas won't keep. Something mu...

Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

The silly question is the firs...

The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.

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

Each generation criticizes the...

Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

It does not matter what men sa...

It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts; but until this has occurred, words do not count.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

From the moment of birth we ar...

From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

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