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Alfred North Whitehead

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.


— Alfred North Whitehead


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The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.


— Alfred North Whitehead


#life

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge


— Alfred North Whitehead


#knowledge #death

The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.


— Alfred North Whitehead


#education

A science that hesitates to forget its founders is lost.


— Alfred North Whitehead


#tradition #science

In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.


— Alfred North Whitehead


#intelligence #science #education

Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness.


— Alfred North Whitehead


#solitariness #religion

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 North Whitehead


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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.


— Alfred North Whitehead


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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.


— Alfred North Whitehead


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Whitehead's political views sometimes appear to be libertarian without the label. He believed that "there are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. 1925a.

Alfred North Whitehead OM FRS (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English-American mathematician and philosopher. He co-authored the epochal Principia Mathematica with Russell and later wrote the metaphysical treatise Process and Reality.

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