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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
«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.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
custodian, custodians, fervor, vitality
«Without adventure civilization is in full decay»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Adventure,
Civilization
| Keywords:
adventure, decay, in full
«The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Humor,
Literature
| Keywords:
singular, singulars
«It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
Among the, duties, equip, equipping, equips, merits, The Business
«So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the 15th century.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
century, concerned, imparting, imparts, justification, popularization, printing, university
«Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
aesthetic, enjoyment, imposing, pattern, recognition
«No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
act on, idealism, idealistic, In Our Time, motives, paying, penalty, shove, shoved, shoves, shove it, shoving
«Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Adventure,
Art
| Keywords:
adventure, flourished, flourishes
«Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Progress
| Keywords:
basic, fundamental, reinterpretation
«It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Intelligence
| Keywords:
contemplate
