Famous Quotes / Alfred North Whitehead
57 Quotations by Alfred North Whitehead
- 41. The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.
- 42. The kindness of the American people is, so far as I know, something unique in the history of the wor ...
- 43. The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all tha ...
- 44. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.
- 45. The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth whil ...
- 46. The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When t ...
- 47. The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of ...
- 48. There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths t ...
- 49. There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodim ...
- 50. There is a self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the d ...
- 51. Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is ...
- 52. True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
- 53. We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can ...
- 54. We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
- 55. What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, ...
- 56. Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim
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- 57. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.