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 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.”
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: 1930s, Adventures of Ideas (1933), p. 360.
1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925)
“…The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit…”
Source: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 2: "Mathematics as an Element in the History of Thought"
Source: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 1: "The Origins of Modern Science"
Source: 1930s, Adventures of Ideas (1933), p. 353.
“The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.”
1920s, The Aims of Education (1929)
Source: 1910s, An Introduction to Mathematics (1911), ch. 5.
“The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.”
Pt. I, ch. 1, sec. 1.
1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)
Source: Attributed from posthumous publications, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954), Ch. 28, June 3, 1943.
Source: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 12: Religion and Science.
Religion in the Making (February 1926), Lecture II: "Religion and Dogma".
1920s
Religion in the Making (February 1926), Lecture II: "Religion and Dogma" http://www.mountainman.com.au/whiteh_2.htm.
1920s
Preface, p. 16 (Corrected Edition)
1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)
1920s, The Aims of Education (1929)
Pt. III, ch. 1, sec. 7.
1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)
As quoted in Church and Home, Vol. 1 (1964) by United Methodist Church, and Evangelical United Brethren Church, p. 21.
Attributed from posthumous publications
Source: Attributed from posthumous publications, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954), Ch. 21, June 28, 1941.
1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)
Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect (1927).
1920s
Source: 1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929), Chapter IV, p. 310 https://books.google.com/books?id=uJDEx6rPu1QC&pg=PA310.
Source: 1910s, An Introduction to Mathematics (1911), ch. 15.