Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
“The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.”— Alfred North Whitehead
“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.”— Alfred North Whitehead
“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.”— Alfred North Whitehead
“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”— Alfred North Whitehead
“It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.”— Alfred North Whitehead
“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.”— Alfred North Whitehead
“The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.”— Alfred North Whitehead
“Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.”— Alfred North Whitehead
“What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like.”— Alfred North Whitehead
“The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.”— Alfred North Whitehead