Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
If a dog jumps into 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.
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.
Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.
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.
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.
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.
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.
Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.
The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.
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.
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.
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.
It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.