Alfred North Whitehead Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.”

“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.”

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

“The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.”

“Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.”

“Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.”

“Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.”

“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.”

“When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.”

“The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.”