Quote #71

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

More from Alfred North Whitehead

  1. 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…
  2. Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
  3. In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus ev…
  4. We think in generalities, but we live in details.
  5. 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…
  6. There remains the final reflection, how shallow, puny, and imperfect are efforts to sound the depths in the nature of things. In philosophi…
  7. Dogmatic common sense is the death of philosophic adventure. The universe is vast.
  8. Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

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