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To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That’s not me (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
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 Quotes)
When you’re average, you’re just as close to the bottom as you are the top (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Routine is the God of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
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 Quotes)
We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations (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 fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)
The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past (Alfred North Whitehead Quotes)