Whitehead, Alfred North
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Whitehead, Alfred North
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.
Whitehead, Alfred North
Ideas
Common sense is genius in homespun.
Whitehead, Alfred North
Common Sense
Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
Whitehead, Alfred North
Common Sense
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.
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Destiny
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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Courage
Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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Familiarity
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
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Experience
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.
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Habit
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
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Philosophers and Philosophy
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
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Intelligence and Intellectuals
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
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Life and Living
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
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Ideas
Philosophy is the product of wonder.
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Philosophers and Philosophy
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
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Progress
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.
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Truth
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.
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Thoughts and Thinking
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
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Thoughts and Thinking
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
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Quotations
Seek simplicity but distrust it.
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Simplicity
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
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Speech
Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
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Adventure
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
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Action
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
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Arts and Artists
Ideas won t keep, something must be done about them.
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Action
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
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Youth