Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning. Alfred North Whitehead More Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead More Quotes From Alfred North Whitehead It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. Alfred North Whitehead learningmindscience The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue. Alfred North Whitehead issuescollegeappreciation The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning. Alfred North Whitehead zestunitingconnections The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. Alfred North Whitehead madnessspiritmath What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation. Alfred North Whitehead vividanticipationmemories There is no nature in an instant. Alfred North Whitehead instant Above all things we must be aware of what I will call 'inert ideas' Alfred North Whitehead combinationmindideas That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience. Alfred North Whitehead greatnessaddcharacter The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. Alfred North Whitehead literatureabsence Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour. Alfred North Whitehead intolerancemoralsin Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious. Alfred North Whitehead individualreligiousdoe In all education the main cause of failure is staleness. Alfred North Whitehead failurecausesteaching You think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day; I think it is what it seems like in the early morning when one first wakes from deep sleep. Alfred North Whitehead sleepmorningthinking The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit. Alfred North Whitehead developmentmathmay Common sense is genius in homespun. Alfred North Whitehead common-sensegeniuscommon Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. Alfred North Whitehead wisdommathscience To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature. Alfred North Whitehead naturedoemean In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts. Alfred North Whitehead classrealityworld Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future. Alfred North Whitehead emotionlifepast To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought. Alfred North Whitehead ontologylogiccertainty
