More from Alfred North Whitehead

  1. Whether or no it be for the general good, life is robbery. It is at this point that with life morals become acute. The robber requires just…
  2. The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.
  3. The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
  4. A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.
  5. Error is the price we pay for progress.
  6. The deliberate aim at Peace very easily passes into its bastard substitute, Anesthesia.
  7. Thus the universe is to be conceived as attaining the active self-expression of its own variety of opposites of its own freedom and its own…
  8. The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

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