412 Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.

Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.

The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.

The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.

Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.

It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages.

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.

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.

Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.