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That knowledge which adds gre...

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

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

"One and one make two" assume...

"One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this notion of unimportant change.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

The aim of science is to seek...

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Our habitual experience is a ...

Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Algebra reverses the relative...

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify in its written structures the patterns which it is its purpose to convey. The pattern of the marks on paper is a particular instance of the pattern to be conveyed to thought. The algebraic method is our best approach to the expression of necessity, by reason of its reduction of accident to the ghostlike character of the real variable.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Identification of rhythm as t...

Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life; wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

There is a quality of life wh...

There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life; and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

All practical teachers know t...

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Disputing the commonsense not...

Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Nature is probably quite indi...

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Not a sentence or a word is i...

Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Apart from blunt truth, our l...

Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

The art of progress is to pre...

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

No religion can be considered...

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Whenever a text-book is writt...

Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to teach from it. Of course it will be difficult to teach from it. It it were easy, the book ought to be burned.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Democracy...is a society in w...

Democracy...is a society in which the unbeliever feels undisturbed and at home. If there were only a half dozen unbelievers in America, their well-being would be a test of our democracy.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

Do not teach too many subject...

Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

I always feel that I have two...

I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

The worth of men consists in ...

The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. They can persuade and can be persuaded by the disclosure of alternatives, the better and the worse. Civilization is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness as embodying the nobler alternative. The recourse to force, however, unavoidable, is a disclosure of the failure of civilization, either in the general society or in a remnant of individuals. Thus in a live civilization there is always an element of unrest.

Alfred North Whitehead 401 quotes

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