Alfred North Whitehead

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

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The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#life

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#knowledge #death

The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#education

A science that hesitates to forget its founders is lost. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#tradition #science

In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#intelligence #science #education

Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#solitariness #religion

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#best #done #end #philosophic #philosophy

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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