412 Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.

Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.

The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.

Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.