Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals. The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it. The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development. The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue. The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. 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. There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil. True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. We think in generalities, but we live in detail. What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike. When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top. Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
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