Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. - Alfred Whitehead Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. - Alfred Whitehead Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Philosophy is the product of wonder. - Alfred Whitehead Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. - Alfred Whitehead Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Necessity is the mother of invention is a silly proverb. Necessity is the mother of futile dodges is much nearer the truth. - Alfred Whitehead Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. Think of those Galilean peasants. - Alfred Whitehead Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Whitehead Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational 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. - Alfred Whitehead Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Alfred Whitehead Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me. - Alfred Whitehead Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. - Alfred Whitehead Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Whitehead Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground for it is the past, and it is the future. - Alfred Whitehead Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
There is a self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. - Alfred Whitehead Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning. - Alfred Whitehead Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change. - Alfred Whitehead Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Alfred Whitehead Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ones. - Alfred Whitehead Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking. - Alfred Whitehead Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. - Alfred Whitehead Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay. - Alfred Whitehead Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top. - Alfred Whitehead Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure. - Alfred Whitehead Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness. - Alfred Whitehead Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words. - Alfred Whitehead Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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