92 ordspråk av Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
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Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks
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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge
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One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude
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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude
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Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
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Philosophy is the product of wonder.
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Religion is the last refuge of human savagery
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Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God
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Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness.
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Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness
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