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All Quotes by author - Alfred North Whitehead

" Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. "

" Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. "

" Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. "

" Common sense is genius in homespun. "

" Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. "

" Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them. "

" 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. "

" It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression. "

" It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious. "

" Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. "

" No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. "

" Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. "

" Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude. "

" Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. "

" Seek simplicity but distrust it. "

" Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious. "

" Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice. "

" Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. "

" The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. "

" The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it. "

" There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil. "

" The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. "

Characterization

" The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it. "

" We think in generalities, but we live in detail. "

" What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike. "

" Without adventure civilization is in full decay. "

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