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Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
— Alfred North Whitehead
There were plenty of things in the world that deserved to stay dead, yet they walked.
— Colson Whitehead
A plantation was a plantation; one might think one's misfortunes distinct, but the true horror lay in their universality.
— Colson Whitehead
The I-Remember-Whensters lumbered in with their musty catalogues of the bygone, dragging IVs of distilled nostalgia behind them on creaky wheels,
— Colson Whitehead
'Sag Harbor' was a very different book for me. It changed the way I thought about books that I wanted to do.
— Colson Whitehead
The world may be mean, but people don't have to be, not if they refuse.
— Colson Whitehead
At ninety, everything is air and the difference between you and the medium of your passage is disintegrating with every increment of the ascension.
— Colson Whitehead
Value is coextensive with reality.
— Alfred North Whitehead
There is no nature in an instant.
— Alfred North Whitehead
He was a rube, but he was no tourist.
— Colson Whitehead
Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.
— Alfred North Whitehead
We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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.
— Alfred North Whitehead
There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations
— Alfred North Whitehead
Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
— Alfred North Whitehead
New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for example.
— Colson Whitehead
There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Knowledge keeps no better than fish.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
— Alfred North Whitehead
I'm just trying to keep things rich for me creatively and for the readers who follow me.
— Colson Whitehead
I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics
— Hunter S. Thompson
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
— Alfred North Whitehead
Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Poetry and prayer put ideas in people's heads that got them killed, distracting them from the ruthless mechanism of the world.
— Colson Whitehead
The self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Two white men in two days had their hands around her. Was this a condition of her freedom? Caesar
— Colson Whitehead
Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.
— John Polkinghorne