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Alfred North Whitehead angliai születésű amerikai matematikus, logikus, aki filozófussá lett, így a 20. század egyik legjelentősebb és legnagyobb hatású gondolkodójává vált. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. február 1861 – 30. december 1947
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„A haladás művészete a rend megőrzése a változás közepette, és a változás megőrzése a rend közepette.”

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Alfred North Whitehead: Idézetek angolul

“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.”

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Forrás: Attributed from posthumous publications, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954), Ch. 32, January 13, 1944.

“The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment… We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.”

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Forrás: 1910s, An Introduction to Mathematics (1911), ch. 1.

“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.”

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Forrás: Attributed from posthumous publications, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954), Ch. 22, August 30, 1941.

“A precise language awaits a completed metaphysics.”

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1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)

“A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.”

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Forrás: Attributed from posthumous publications, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954), p. 66

“The relevant poems are Milton's Paradise Lost, Pope's Essay on Man, Wordsworth's Excursion, Tennyson's In Memoriam.”

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Forrás: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 5: "The Romantic Reaction"

“Scientists, animated by the purpose of proving they are purposeless, constitute an interesting subject for study.”

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The Function of Reason (1929), Beacon Books, 1958, p. 16
1920s

“The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.”

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Forrás: Attributed from posthumous publications, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954), Ch. 36, January 19, 1945.

“Nothing is more impressive than the fact that as mathematics withdrew increasingly into the upper regions of ever greater extremes of abstract thought, it returned back to earth with a corresponding growth of importance for the analysis of concrete fact. …The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.”

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1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925)

“With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more powerful.”

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Forrás: Attributed from posthumous publications, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954), Ch. 29, June 10, 1943.

“Mathematics as an Element in the History of Thought.”

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1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925)

“Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.”

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Forrás: 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

“We find here the final application of the doctrine of objective immortality. Throughout the perishing occasions in the life of each temporal Creature, the inward source of distaste or of refreshment, the judge arising out of the very nature of things, redeemer or goddess of mischief, is the transformation of Itself, everlasting in the Being of God. In this way, the insistent craving is justified — the insistent craving that zest for existence be refreshed by the ever-present, unfading importance of our immediate actions, which perish and yet live for evermore.”

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1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)

“Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.”

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1910s, The Principles of Natural Knowledge (1919)

“No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.”

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"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
1930s

“Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the final aim of philosophy, the flux of things is one ultimate generalization around which we must weave our philosophical system.”

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Pt. II, ch. 10, sec. 1.
1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)

“He has been named respectively, Jehovah, Allah, Brahma, Father in Heaven, Order of Heaven, First Cause, Supreme Being, Chance. Each name corresponds to a system of thought derived from the experiences of those who have used it…. He has been conceived as the foundation of the metaphysical situation with its ultimate activity. If this conception be adhered to, there can be no alternative except to discern in Him the origin of all evil as well as of all good. He is then the supreme author of the play, and to him must therefore be ascribed its shortcomings as well as its success.”

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Forrás: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 11: "God"

“Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.”

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Forrás: Attributed from posthumous publications, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954), Ch. 43, November 11, 1947.

“Identification of rhythm as the causal counterpart of life; wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.”

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1910s, The Principles of Natural Knowledge (1919)

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

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Forrás: 1930s, Adventures of Ideas (1933), p. 285.

“Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.”

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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.”

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Forrás: 1930s, Adventures of Ideas (1933), p. 284.

“The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.”

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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.”

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Forrás: 1930s, Adventures of Ideas (1933), p. 102.

“It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.”

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Forrás: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 13: Requisites for Social Progress.

“That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.”

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1920s, The Aims of Education (1929)

“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. The art of free society consists first in the maintenance of the symbolic code; and secondly in fearlessness of revision, to secure that the code serves those purposes which satisfy an enlightened reason. Those societies which cannot combine reverence to their symbols with freedom of revision, must ultimately decay either from anarchy, or from the slow atrophy of a life stifled by useless shadows.”

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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.”

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Forrás: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 6: "The Nineteenth Century"

“Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.”

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1920s, The Aims of Education (1929)

“Systems, scientific and philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.”

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Forrás: 1930s, Adventures of Ideas (1933), p. 203.