Quotes by Adventure Most fight sequences on a television show, probably any action adventure show that you know of, if you asked them how long they probably spend, [it's] one or two days doing the fight. Where we were spending eight days concurrently with an episode doing our fight sequences. Alfred Gough eight fighting adventure Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought. Alfred North Whitehead rationalism clarification adventure Without adventure civilization is in full decay. Alfred North Whitehead adventure civilization travel Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure. Alfred North Whitehead adventure travel art The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past. Alfred North Whitehead greatness adventure past The Universe is vast. Nothing is more curious than the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. Skeptics and believers are alike. At this moment scientists and skeptics are the leading dogmatists. Advance in detail is admitted; fundamental novelty is barred. This dogmatic common sense is the death of philosophic adventure. Alfred North Whitehead common-sense self adventure Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Alfred North Whitehead adventure science past It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery - Columbus when he first saw the Western shore, Pizarro when he stared at the Pacific Ocean, Franklin when the electric spark came from the string of his kite, Galileo when he first turned his telescope to the heavens. Such moments are also granted to students in the abstract regions of thought, and high among them must be placed the morning when Descartes lay in bed and invented the method of co-ordinate geometry. Alfred North Whitehead ocean morning adventure The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. They can persuade and can be persuaded by the disclosure of alternatives, the better and the worse. Civilization is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness as embodying the nobler alternative. The recourse to force, however, unavoidable, is a disclosure of the failure of civilization, either in the general society or in a remnant of individuals. Thus in a live civilization there is always an element of unrest. Alfred North Whitehead adventure men mean Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. Alfred North Whitehead decay adventure civilization Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment. Alfred North Whitehead scrapbooking adventure art 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 North Whitehead courage adventure travel In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections. Alfred North Whitehead adventure mean ideas The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable. Alfred North Whitehead unattainable safety adventure The vitality of thought is in adventure. Idea's won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervour, live for it, and, if need be, die for it. Their inheritors receive the idea, perhaps now strong and successful, but without inheriting the fervour; so the idea settles down to a comfortable middle age, turns senile, and dies. Alfred North Whitehead strong adventure science 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 North Whitehead real adventure past Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them; but the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice the faint stirrings of the great curtain that hangs ever in the form of appearances between them and the world of causes behind. Algernon Blackwood adventure past fall My parents made no money whatsoever, but they really knew how to see, as artists. So a big adventure might be, on a hot, dreadful day with no place to go, to go out and draw our chickens with pastels. My parents gave me a sense of wonder. Ali MacGraw parent artist adventure The fascinating thing about ideals is that no sooner have we gained a desired peak than we find farther and higher peaks beyond. The thrilling adventure never ends. 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