Alfred North Whitehead livre Procès et réalité
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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Process and Reality, 1929
Alfred North Whitehead: 115 citations0 J'aime
Alfred North Whitehead citations célèbres
It is the first step in sociological wisdom, to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur:— like unto an arrow in the hand of a child.
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Symbolism: its meaning and effect, 1927
“La religion est ce que fait l’individu de sa propre solitude.”
Alfred North Whitehead livre Religion in the Making
Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.
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Religion in the Making, 1926
Alfred North Whitehead: Citations en anglais
Source: Attributed from posthumous publications, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954), Ch. 32, January 13, 1944.
Source: 1910s, An Introduction to Mathematics (1911), ch. 1.
Source: Attributed from posthumous publications, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954), Ch. 22, August 30, 1941.
“A precise language awaits a completed metaphysics.”
1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)
Source: Attributed from posthumous publications, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954), p. 66
Source: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 5: "The Romantic Reaction"
The Function of Reason (1929), Beacon Books, 1958, p. 16
1920s
“The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.”
Source: Attributed from posthumous publications, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954), Ch. 36, January 19, 1945.
1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925)
Source: Attributed from posthumous publications, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954), Ch. 29, June 10, 1943.
“Mathematics as an Element in the History of Thought.”
1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925)
“Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.”
Source: 1930s, Adventures of Ideas (1933), p. 63, Ch. 4 http://books.google.com/books?id=UZeJuLvNq80C&q="Intolerance+is+the+besetting+sin+of+moral+fervour"&pg=PA50#v=onepage
1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)
1910s, The Principles of Natural Knowledge (1919)
“No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.”
"Harvard: The Future," http://books.google.com/books?id=X3k5AQAAIAAJ&q=%22No+member+of+a+crew+is+praised+for+the+rugged+individuality+of+his+rowing%22&pg=PA266#v=onepage The Atlantic Monthly, September 1936 http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/theatlantic/doc/203819851.html?FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE&type=current&date=Sep+1936&author=Alfred+North+Whitehead&pub=The+Atlantic+(1932-1971)&edition=&startpage=260-270&desc=Harvard:+The+future <br class="br">1930s
Pt. II, ch. 10, sec. 1.
1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)
Source: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 11: "God"
Source: Attributed from posthumous publications, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954), Ch. 43, November 11, 1947.
“The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.”
Source: 1930s, Adventures of Ideas (1933), p. 285.
Pt. I, ch. 1, sec. 6.
1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)
“The deliberate aim at Peace very easily passes into its bastard substitute, Anesthesia.”
Source: 1930s, Adventures of Ideas (1933), p. 284.
“The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.”
Pt. V, ch. 1, sec. 1.
1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)
“Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.”
Source: 1930s, Adventures of Ideas (1933), p. 102.
Source: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 13: Requisites for Social Progress.
Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect (1927), chapter 3, p. 88; final paragraph of the book.
1920s
“The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.”
Source: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 6: "The Nineteenth Century"
“Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.”
1920s, The Aims of Education (1929)
Source: 1930s, Adventures of Ideas (1933), p. 203.
