Alfred North Whitehead Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

33 Famous Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
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“True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.”
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“Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.”
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“Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.”
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“Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.”
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“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.”
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“Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.”
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“Seek simplicity but distrust it.”
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“Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.”
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