4 Alfred North Whitehead Quotes on Creativity

Alfred North Whitehead quotes on creativity

32. Creativity is the universal of universals characterizing ultimate matter of fact. It is that ultimate principle by which the many, which are the universe disjunctively, become the one actual occasion, which is the universe conjunctively. It lies in the nature of things that the many enter into complex unity.

52. 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 fervor, live for it, and, if need be, die for it.

55. A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.

64. Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.