More from Alfred North Whitehead

  1. In all philosophic theory there is an ultimate which is actual in virtue of its accidents. It is only then capable of characterization thro…
  2. Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted exp…
  3. The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.
  4. Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity. Each actual occasion contributes to the circu…
  5. The universities are schools of education, and schools of research. But the primary reason for their existence is not to be found either in…
  6. Philosophy finds religion, and modifies it; and conversely religion is among the data of experience which philosophy must weave into its ow…
  7. That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
  8. The term many presupposes the term one, and the term one presupposes the term many.

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