Quote

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

Alfred North Whitehead

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alfred North Whitehead
Age: 86 †
Born: 1861
Born: February 15
Died: 1947
Died: December 30
Mathematician
Philosopher
Physicist
Theologian
Writer
Ramsgate
Kent
Receives
Outlook
Concrete
Expression
Humanity
Literature

More quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

Image
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us. Everything of importance has been said before by someone who did not discover it.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
When success turns a man's head he faces failure
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
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
Image
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 fifteenth century.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
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
Image
We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.
Alfred North Whitehead