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The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The degeneracy of mankind is distinguished from its uprise by the dominance of chill abstractions, divorced from aesthetic content.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Seek simplicity but distrust it.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed.
— Alfred North Whitehead
We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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
Error itself may be happy chance.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Common sense is genius in homespun.
— Alfred North Whitehead
That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
— Alfred North Whitehead
It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.
— Alfred North Whitehead
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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
Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.
— Alfred North Whitehead
A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.
— Alfred North Whitehead
A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.
— Alfred North Whitehead
A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.
— Alfred North Whitehead
It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.
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Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
— Alfred North Whitehead
From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
— Alfred North Whitehead
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Error is the price we pay for progress.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness.
— Alfred North Whitehead
No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.
— Alfred North Whitehead
When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
— Alfred North Whitehead
You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
— Alfred North Whitehead
From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning.
— Alfred North Whitehead
When success turns a man's head he faces failure
— Alfred North Whitehead
I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Each creative act is the universe incarnating itself as one, and there is nothing above it by way of final condition.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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
Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.
— Alfred North Whitehead
A science that hesitates to forget its founders is lost.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
— Alfred North Whitehead
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
— Alfred North Whitehead
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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.
— Alfred North Whitehead
There is no nature in an instant.
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Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
— Alfred North Whitehead
We cannot think first and act afterwards. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only guide it by taking thought.
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The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
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Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.
— Alfred North Whitehead
There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.
— Alfred North Whitehead
There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations
— Alfred North Whitehead
Value is coextensive with reality.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
— Alfred North 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
Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Knowledge keeps no better than fish.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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
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
It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
— Alfred North Whitehead
One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The term many presupposes the term one , and the term one presupposes the term many.
— Alfred North Whitehead
No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes.
— Alfred North Whitehead
There is no nature at an instant.
— Alfred North Whitehead
In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Knowledge does not keep any better than fish.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
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Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.
— Alfred North Whitehead