Quotes by Alfred N. Whitehead

Alfred N. Whitehead

Alfred N. Whitehead

English philosopher and mathematician

Lived from: 1861 - 1947

Category: Philosophers | Scientists Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 15 february 1861 Died: 30 december 1947

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  • Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
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  • Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
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  • In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.
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  • In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
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  • Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
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  • It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
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  • It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
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  • It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
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  • Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
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  • No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
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  • Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
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  • Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
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  • Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
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  • Philosophy is the product of wonder.
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  • Seek simplicity but distrust it.
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  • Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
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  • Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
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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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  • The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
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  • The concept is always clothed with emotion, that is to say, with hope, or with fear, or with hatred, or with eager aspiration.
    Modes of thought (1938)
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