Quotes Alfred North Whitehead

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness wh...

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expr...

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret s...

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure....

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aest...

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain i...

Civilization advances by extending the number of important o...

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civili...

Common sense is genius in homespun....

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret ...

Every philosophy is tinged with the colouring of some secret...

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody wh...

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about th...

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on k...

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of ...

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of noti...

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious person...

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted th...

I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish bo...

Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them....

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you;...

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of yo...

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, bu...

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form abil...

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity re...