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Alfred North Whitehead (Mathematician)

A clash of doctrines is not a disaster--it is an opportunity.

— Alfred North Whitehead opportunity

Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.

— alfred north whitehead life

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

— Alfred North Whitehead art

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

— Alfred North Whitehead art

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

— Alfred North Whitehead art

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.

— Alfred North Whitehead children

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

— Alfred North Whitehead life

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

— Alfred North Whitehead mind

We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

— Alfred North Whitehead war

The religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.

— alfred north whitehead life

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