412 Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

The term many presupposes the term one, and the term one presupposes the term many.

The worship of God is not a rule of safety – it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.

In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world.

God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality...

People make the mistake of talking about ‘natural laws.’ There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature.

When you’re average, you’re just as close to the bottom as you are the top.

Philosophy is an attempt to express the infinity of the universe in terms of the limitations of language.

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise.

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren’t.