Alfred North Whitehead Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.”

“If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.”

“The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.”

“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”

“It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.”

“Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.”

“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.”

“I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.”

“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.”