More from Alfred North Whitehead

  1. 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 tim…
  2. Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.
  3. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a …
  4. But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destini…
  5. With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct an…
  6. Common sense is genius in homespun.
  7. A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is…
  8. Dogmatic common sense is the death of philosophic adventure. The universe is vast.

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