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The degeneracy of mankind is distinguished from its uprise by the dominance of chill abstractions, divorced from aesthetic content.
— 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
I'm here because I was born here and thus ruined for anywhere else, but I don't know about you.
— Colson Whitehead
Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Seek simplicity but distrust it.
— Alfred North Whitehead
And for the second time that day he blesses the certainty of airports because he can always turn around and go someplace else.
— Colson Whitehead
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Error itself may be happy chance.
— Alfred North Whitehead
There were plenty of things in the world that deserved to stay dead, yet they walked.
— Colson Whitehead
She wondered where he escaped from, how bad it was, and how far he traveled before he put it behind him.
— Colson Whitehead
Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood.
— 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
digging for the truth, by definition, unearths things - and some things were safer left buried.
— Christine M. Whitehead
Sanctimony and self-regard are as American as smallpox blankets and supersize meals.
— 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
It was the softest bed she had ever lain in. But then, it was the only bed she had ever lain in.
— Colson Whitehead
I'm this high school dropout. I quit in my sophomore year, when I was 15. I worked for a while in a deli, and when I was almost 17, I got married.
— Mary Beth Whitehead
Here's a tip for new parents: Start lowering those expectations early, it's going to pay off later.
— 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
The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Pick your fights like you pick your nose: with complete awareness of where you are.
— Colson Whitehead
Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.
— 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
Talking about New York is a way of talking about the world.
— Colson Whitehead
Knowledge does not keep any better than fish.
— 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
Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
— 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
Poems were too close to prayer, rousing regrettable passions. Waiting for God to rescue you when it was up to you.
— Colson Whitehead
Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
— Alfred North Whitehead
It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Judge not the dysfunctions of others, let ye be judged.
— Colson Whitehead
Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.
— 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
Mark Spitz backed away from the fucking corn.
— Colson 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
Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.
— Colson Whitehead
One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
— Alfred North Whitehead
He considers me just a uterus with legs.
— Mary Beth Whitehead
You can't rush inspiration.
— Colson Whitehead
Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.
— John W. Whitehead
The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.
— 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
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.
— 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
Value is coextensive with reality.
— Alfred North Whitehead
There is no nature in an instant.
— 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
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
Knowledge keeps no better than fish.
— Alfred North Whitehead
He was a rube, but he was no tourist.
— Colson Whitehead
I'm just trying to keep things rich for me creatively and for the readers who follow me.
— 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
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
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
It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Even angels are animals.
— Colson Whitehead
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Craftsmen and artisans created items that were brittle rumors compared with his father's iron facts.
— Colson Whitehead
Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Robert Whitehead built the first self-propelled torpedo.
— Jeff Edwards
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
There was no recourse, were no laws but the ones rewritten every day.
— Colson Whitehead
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?
— Colson 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.
— Alfred North Whitehead
She wondered why there were only two kinds of weather: hardship in the morning, and tribulation at night.
— Colson Whitehead
Women just weren't made to bear children to give them away.
— Mary Beth Whitehead
The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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