57 Quotations by Alfred North Whitehead
- 1. A clash of doctrines is not a disaster--it is an opportunity.

- 2. A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear ...

- 3. A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may ...

- 4. An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

- 5. Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pa ...

- 6. But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, ...

- 7. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without t ...

- 8. Common sense is genius in homespun.

- 9. Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of informatio ...

- 10. Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and par ...

- 11. Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emer ...

- 12. Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

- 13. Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to u ...

- 14. How the past perishes is how the future becomes.

- 15. Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing languag ...

- 16. I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out o ...

- 17. I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the ...

- 18. I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.

- 19. If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is ...

- 20. If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it ...

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