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Quotes By author - Starting with A - Alfred North Whitehead
There are 62 quotes for the author Alfred North Whitehead
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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.
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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
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Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt egerneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life

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

Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of "artistic" expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.

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

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.

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature

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

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

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

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

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

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

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

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

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals

I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.

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