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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes and Quotations
Alfred North Whitehead An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words. Alfred North Whitehead Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. Alfred North Whitehead Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. Alfred North Whitehead 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. Alfred North Whitehead Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. Alfred North Whitehead Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. Alfred North Whitehead Common sense is genius in homespun. Alfred North Whitehead Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning. Alfred North Whitehead Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. Alfred North Whitehead Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. Alfred North Whitehead Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. Alfred North Whitehead I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me. Alfred North Whitehead Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them. Alfred North Whitehead If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. Alfred North Whitehead 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. Alfred North Whitehead Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. Alfred North Whitehead It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties. Alfred North Whitehead Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe. Alfred North Whitehead Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. Alfred North Whitehead Return from Alfred North Whitehead Quotes to Famous People List Page Alfred North Whitehead Quotes and Quotations - Alfred North Whitehead Quotes and Quotations - Alfred North Whitehead Quotes and Quotations
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