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Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
— Alfred North Whitehead
I'm here because I was born here and thus ruined for anywhere else, but I don't know about you.
— Colson Whitehead
There were plenty of things in the world that deserved to stay dead, yet they walked.
— Colson Whitehead
The world is mean from the start and gets meaner every day. It uses you up until you only dream of death. Mabel
— 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
Don't be afraid: you have a best seller on your hands.
— Colson 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
Value is coextensive with reality.
— Alfred North 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
There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations
— Alfred North Whitehead
There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.
— Alfred North Whitehead
An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.
— Alfred North Whitehead
She gulped the air like water, the night sky the best meal she had ever had, the starts made succulent and ripe after her time below.
— Colson Whitehead
Well, imagine you are alone in a room....Are you the best, most special person in the room right now? Yes. That's the gift of being alone.
— Colson Whitehead
Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Governments are best classified by considering who are the "somebodies" they are in fact endeavoring to satisfy.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Women just weren't made to bear children to give them away.
— Mary Beth Whitehead
The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
— Alfred North Whitehead
It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.
— Alfred North Whitehead
In the dank utility room deep in the subbasements of my personality, a little man wiped his hands on his overalls and pulled the switch: More.
— Colson Whitehead
Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.
— John Polkinghorne
Two white men in two days had their hands around her. Was this a condition of her freedom? Caesar
— Colson Whitehead
The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.
— 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
Poetry and prayer put ideas in people's heads that got them killed, distracting them from the ruthless mechanism of the world.
— Colson Whitehead
Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.
— Alfred North Whitehead
There is no nature in an instant.
— Alfred North 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
I'm just trying to keep things rich for me creatively and for the readers who follow me.
— Colson Whitehead
He was a rube, but he was no tourist.
— Colson 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
Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
— 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
Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
— Alfred North Whitehead