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The factor in human life prov...

The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

But harmony is limitation. Th...

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

We think in generalities, but...

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Seek simplicity, then distrus...

Seek simplicity, then distrust.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

On the ostensible exactitude ...

On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

In England if something goes ...

In England if something goes wrong--say, if one finds a skunk in the garden--he writes to the family solicitor, who proceeds to take the proper measures; whereas in America, you telephone the fire department. Each satisfies a characteristic need; in the English, love of order and legalistic procedure; and here in America, what you like is something vivid, and red, and swift.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

The study of mathematics is a...

The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Without adventure civilizatio...

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

Art flourishes where there is...

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Every intellectual revolution...

Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Religion is what the individu...

Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

I will not go so far as to sa...

I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. That would be claiming too much. But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming . . . and a little mad.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

In this modern world, the cel...

In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

[In many circumstances,] the ...

[In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

No man of science wants merel...

No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

When success turns a man's he...

When success turns a man's head he faces failure

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Faith in the possibility of s...

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

Imagination is not to be divo...

Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

In its solitariness the spiri...

In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till it has merged its individual claim with that of the objective universe. Religion is world-loyalty.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

The paradox is now fully esta...

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

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