More from Alfred North Whitehead

  1. The deliberate aim at Peace very easily passes into its bastard substitute, Anesthesia.
  2. There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
  3. A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.
  4. 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 fer…
  5. The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.
  6. Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
  7. ... the kingdom of heaven is with us today.
  8. Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose…

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