More from Alfred North Whitehead

  1. The universities are schools of education, and schools of research. But the primary reason for their existence is not to be found either in…
  2. In all philosophic theory there is an ultimate which is actual in virtue of its accidents. It is only then capable of characterization thro…
  3. That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
  4. Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.
  5. The essence of education is that it be religious. Pray, what is religious education? A religious education is an education which inculcates…
  6. Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted exp…
  7. The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
  8. Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity. Each actual occasion contributes to the circu…

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