Quote

Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.

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
Everyone
Good
Philosopher

More quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

Image
You think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day I think it is what it seems like in the early morning when one first wakes from deep sleep.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
Error is the price we pay for progress.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society .
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
Alfred North Whitehead