Alfred North Whitehead quotes Born: 02/15/1861 Died: 12/30/1947 Country: usa

• Common sense is genius in homespun. (Alfred North Whitehead) [genius]
• Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious. (Alfred North Whitehead) [mind/analysis]
• But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided. (Alfred North Whitehead) [/think]
• True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason. (Alfred North Whitehead) [courage/virtue]
• Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. (Alfred North Whitehead) [mankind/mind/analysis]
• An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words. (Alfred North Whitehead) [experience/words]
• 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. (Alfred North Whitehead) [age/complex/habit]
• Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning. (Alfred North Whitehead) [philosophy]
• Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. (Alfred North Whitehead) [intelligence/form/ability/thing]
• Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe. (Alfred North Whitehead) [life/universe]
• Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. (Alfred North Whitehead) [human/life/language]
• Philosophy is the product of wonder. (Alfred North Whitehead) [philosophy/product/wonder]
• The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. (Alfred North Whitehead) [art/civilization & progress/order/change]
• 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) [/time/majority]
• Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking. (Alfred North Whitehead) [thinking]
• We think in generalities, but we live in detail. (Alfred North Whitehead) [think]
• Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. (Alfred North Whitehead)
• Seek simplicity but distrust it. (Alfred North Whitehead) []
• Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. (Alfred North Whitehead) [speech/human/nature/language]
• Without adventure civilization is in full decay. (Alfred North Whitehead)
• Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. (Alfred North Whitehead) [mankind]
• Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. (Alfred North Whitehead) [art/experience/enjoyment/recognition]
• The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. (Alfred North Whitehead) [youth/life]
• Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced. (Alfred North Whitehead)
• Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure. (Alfred North Whitehead)
• Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. (Alfred North Whitehead)
• Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. (Alfred North Whitehead)
• Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination. (Alfred North Whitehead)
• Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas. (Alfred North Whitehead)
• I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't. (Alfred North Whitehead)
• I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether. (Alfred North Whitehead)

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