It's an eye-opener for people to see how vulnerable they are.


Carl Whitehead

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Today
BARBARA DAFOE WHITEHEAD
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
There are no whole truths. All truths are half truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths th...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuse...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099 Apart from God every activity is merely a pas...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
The power of God is the worship He inspires. That religion is strong which in its ritual and its mod...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it i...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refu...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and tha...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without t...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuse...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real knowledge, it...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
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The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into th...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nigh...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emer...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Philosophy is the product of wonder.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Common sense is genius in homespun.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth whil...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodim...
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Necessity is the mother of invention is a silly proverb. Necessity is the mother of futile dodges is...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
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In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion w...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that,...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbour...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to u...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out o...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Seek simplicity but distrust it.
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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanisms of the universe.
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The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice ...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
It is the first step in sociological wisdom, to recognize that the major advances in civilisation ar...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD