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Alfred North Whitehead - From the Accomplishment category:
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Adventure category:
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)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Art category:
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Art category:
Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Art category:
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Danger category:
It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Destiny category:
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)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Education category:
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. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Experience category:
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Experiments category:
Art flourishes where there is a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment; but when caution comes in you get repetition, and repetition is the death of art. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Genius category:
Common sense is genius in homespun. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Gratitude category:
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Greatness category:
Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul's self-attainment. It justifies itself both by its immediate enjoyment, and also by its discipline of the inmost being. Its discipline is not distinct from enjoyment but by reason of it. It transforms the soul into the permanent realization of values extending beyond its former self. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Humanity category:
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Humour category:
I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Idealism category:
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)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Ideas category:
Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Ideas category:
Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Imagination category:
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Importance category:
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Information category:
So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the 15th century. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Intellect category:
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Invention category:
'Necessity is the mother of invention' is a silly proverb. 'Necessity is the mother of futile dodges' is much nearer the truth. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Knowledge category:
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Knowledge category:
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Life category:
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Life category:
We think in generalities, but we live in detail. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Morality category:
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Originality category:
Every really new idea looks crazy at first. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Peace category:
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Pets category:
If a dog jumps in 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)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Philosophy category:
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Philosophy category:
The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Possibilities category:
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. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Problems category:
Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Progress category:
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Progress category:
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Questions category:
The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Quotations category:
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. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Religion category:
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Success category:
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)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Symbols category:
Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt egerneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Thinking category:
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)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Time category:
There is no nature in an instant. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Travel category:
One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Truth category:
There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Wisdom category:
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)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Wonder category:
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Words category:
Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Alfred North Whitehead - From the Writing category:
It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression. (Alfred North Whitehead)
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