More from Alfred North Whitehead

  1. But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destini…
  2. Dogmatic common sense is the death of philosophic adventure. The universe is vast.
  3. Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.
  4. I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to so…
  5. The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.
  6. In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus ev…
  7. 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…
  8. It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operat…

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