92 ordspråk av Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead föddes den February 15th 1861 och dog den 30 December 1947 - English mathematician
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 The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy |
| The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change. |
| The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, Seek simplicity and distrust it |
| The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people |
| The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future. |
| The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato |
| 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 the devil. |
| There is a self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. |
| 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. |
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