11 Quotes by Alfred Whitehead

The "silly" question is the first intimation of some totally new development

What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.

There is a self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much nearer the truth.

If a dog jumps in 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.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.

Every philosophy is tinged with the colouring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt egerneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life