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| Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. | Alfred North Whitehead | 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher |
| Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. | Alfred North Whitehead | 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher |
| Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them. | Alfred North Whitehead | 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher |
| Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. | Alfred North Whitehead | 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher |
| Without adventure civilization is in full decay. | Alfred North Whitehead | 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher |
| Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. | Alfred North Whitehead | 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher |
| Common sense is genius in homespun. | Alfred North Whitehead | 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher |
| True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason. | Alfred North Whitehead | 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher |
| 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 | 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher |
| An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words. | Alfred North Whitehead | 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher |
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| 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 | 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher |
| 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 | 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher |
| 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 fervour, live for it, and if need be, die for it. | Alfred North Whitehead | 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher |
| Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. | Alfred North Whitehead | 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher |
| Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe. | Alfred North Whitehead | 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher |
| Every philosophy is tinged with the colouring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning. | Alfred North Whitehead | 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher |
| Philosophy is the product of wonder. | Alfred North Whitehead | 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher |
| The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. | Alfred North Whitehead | 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher |
| Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. | Alfred North Whitehead | 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher |
| Seek simplicity but distrust it. | Alfred North Whitehead | 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher |
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| Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking. | Alfred North Whitehead | 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher |
| We think in generalities, but we live in detail. | Alfred North Whitehead | 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher |
| 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 | 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher |
| The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. | Alfred North Whitehead | 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher |
