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Alfred North Whitehead
10 quotes
Quotes
- “The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effo...”
- “The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, back...”
- “No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this he...”
- “In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.”
- “Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.”
- “Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.”
- “The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.”
- “The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.”
- “Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.”
- “All of Western philosophy is but a footnote to Plato.”