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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  • The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
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  • The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
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  • The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.
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  • The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
    Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)
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  • The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.
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  • The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
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  • The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
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  • The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.
    Process and Reality (1929) p. 411
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  • The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.
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  • True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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  • We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
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  • What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
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  • Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
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  • Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
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  • No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
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