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The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India; and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before. (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton , I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry. (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur. (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
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 Quotes)
You think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day; I think it is what it seems like in the early morning when one first wakes from deep sleep. (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable. (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
The main importance of Francis Bacon’s influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader. (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
There is no nature in an instant (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Religion is what a man does with his solitariness (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Knowledge does not keep any better than fish (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
The term many presupposes the term one, and the term one presupposes the term many (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)