Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead

"A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied he is content."
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"A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied he is content."
Alfred North Whitehead
"Routine is the god of every social system it is the seventh heaven of business the essential component in the success of every factory the ideal of every statesman."
Alfred North Whitehead
"There are no whole truths. All truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil."
Alfred North Whitehead
"The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground for it is the past and it is the future."
Alfred North Whitehead
"How the past perishes is how the future becomes."
Alfred North Whitehead
"The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present."
Alfred North Whitehead
"The total absence of humour in the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature."
Alfred North Whitehead
"Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives."
Alfred North Whitehead
"A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost."
Alfred North Whitehead
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous."
Alfred North Whitehead
"The major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur."
Alfred North Whitehead
"The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used."
Alfred North Whitehead
"We think in generalities but we live in detail."
Alfred North Whitehead
"It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."
Alfred North Whitehead
"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."
Alfred North Whitehead
"Life is an offensive directed against the repetitious mechanism of the universe."
Alfred North Whitehead
"Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. Think of those Galilean peasants."
Alfred North Whitehead
"Fools act on imagination without knowledge pedants act on knowledge without imagination."
Alfred North Whitehead
"The total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature."
Alfred North Whitehead
"Ideas won't keep: something must be done about them."
Alfred North Whitehead
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