The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact. 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 learning mind science 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 issues college appreciation 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 zest uniting connections The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. Alfred North Whitehead madness spirit math What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation. Alfred North Whitehead vivid anticipation memories 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 combination mind ideas That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience. Alfred North Whitehead greatness add character The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. Alfred North Whitehead literature absence Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour. Alfred North Whitehead intolerance moral sin 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 individual religious doe In all education the main cause of failure is staleness. Alfred North Whitehead failure causes teaching 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 sleep morning thinking The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit. Alfred North Whitehead development math may Common sense is genius in homespun. Alfred North Whitehead common-sense genius common Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. Alfred North Whitehead wisdom math science 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 nature doe mean 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 class reality world Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future. Alfred North Whitehead emotion life past 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 ontology logic certainty
