4 Alfred North Whitehead Quotes on Experience

Alfred North Whitehead quotes on experience

23. That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

28. Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.

35. Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the final aim of philosophy, the flux of things is one ultimate generalization around which we must weave our philosophical system.

58. Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment in recognition of the pattern.