Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead OM FRSwas an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy, which today has found application to a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology, among other areas...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMathematician
Date of Birth15 February 1861
Alfred North Whitehead quotes about
art writing self
Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul's self-attainment. It justifies itself both by its immediate enjoyment, and also by its discipline of the inmost being. Its discipline is not distinct from enjoyment but by reason of it. It transforms the soul into the permanent realization of values extending beyond its former self.
art adventure done
Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment...
art law progress
The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting world are but examples of a few general relations, called laws. To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.
art self secret
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
beauty art adventure
A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.
art acquisition
Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.
art soul reason
Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art.
art lying sunset
Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.
art soul body
The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.
art patterns recognition
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience...
art adventure funny-adventure
Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
art patterns recognition
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
change art order
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
brutal courage firm force rather resolve true virtue vulgar
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.