An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words. Alfred North Whitehead Read Quote
The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals. Alfred North Whitehead Read Quote
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. Alfred North Whitehead Read Quote
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe. Alfred North Whitehead Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. Alfred North Whitehead Read Quote
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. Alfred North Whitehead Read Quote
The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it. Alfred North Whitehead Read Quote
Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious. Alfred North Whitehead Read Quote
