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But you can catch yourself en...

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.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

It requires a very unusual mi...

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

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

It is in literature that the ...

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

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Intelligence is quickness to ...

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Art attracts us only by what ...

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

The guiding motto in the life...

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

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.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Familiar things happen, and m...

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Civilization advances by exte...

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

No period of history has ever...

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Common sense is genius in hom...

Common sense is genius in homespun.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

The total absence of humor fr...

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Fundamental progress has to d...

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Human life is driven forward ...

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

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

The silly question is the fir...

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

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

When you're average, you're j...

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom g...

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Not ignorance, but ignorance ...

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

If a dog jumps into your lap,...

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

In formal logic, a contradict...

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

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