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The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable. The death of religion comes with the repression of the high hope of adventure (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of a defeat; but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress towards victory (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The ultimate metaphysical principle is the advance from disjunction to conjunction, creating a novel entity other than the entities given in disjunction (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Whether or no it be for the general good, life is robbery. It is at this point that with life morals become acute. The robber requires justification (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature (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)
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)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more powerful (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)
The poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial... He cannot go along with currents and trends (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
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 Quotes)