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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

“A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be, and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.”

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Forrás: 1930s, Adventures of Ideas (1933), p. 360.

“The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.”

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1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925)

“…The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit…”

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Forrás: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 2: "Mathematics as an Element in the History of Thought"

“The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed.”

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Forrás: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 1: "The Origins of Modern Science"

“A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.”

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Forrás: 1930s, Adventures of Ideas (1933), p. 353.

“Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. Its principles may be eternal, but the expression of those principles requires continual development.”

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1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925)

“The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.”

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1920s, The Aims of Education (1929)

“By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.”

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Forrás: 1910s, An Introduction to Mathematics (1911), ch. 5.

“The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.”

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

“The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance.”

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Forrás: Attributed from posthumous publications, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954), Ch. 28, June 3, 1943.

“The power of God is the worship He inspires…. The worship of God is not a rule of safety — it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable. The death of religion comes with the repression of the high hope of adventure.”

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Forrás: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 12: Religion and Science.

“There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life; and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality.”

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Alfred North Whitehead könyv Religion in the Making

Religion in the Making (February 1926), Lecture II: "Religion and Dogma".
1920s

“In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till it has merged its individual claim with that of the objective universe. Religion is world-loyalty.”

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Alfred North Whitehead könyv Religion in the Making

Religion in the Making (February 1926), Lecture II: "Religion and Dogma" http://www.mountainman.com.au/whiteh_2.htm.
1920s

“There remains the final reflection, how shallow, puny, and imperfect are efforts to sound the depths in the nature of things. In philosophical discussion, the merest hint of dogmatic certainty as to finality of statement is an exhibition of folly.”

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Preface, p. 16 (Corrected Edition)
1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)

“What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.”

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1920s, The Aims of Education (1929)

“The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.”

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Pt. III, ch. 1, sec. 7.
1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)

“I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren’t.”

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As quoted in Church and Home, Vol. 1 (1964) by United Methodist Church, and Evangelical United Brethren Church, p. 21.
Attributed from posthumous publications

“Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of human life is to grasp as much as we can out of the infinitude.”

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Forrás: Attributed from posthumous publications, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954), Ch. 21, June 28, 1941.

“Whether or no it be for the general good, life is robbery. It is at this point that with life morals become acute. The robber requires justification.”

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

“We do not require elaborate training merely in order to refrain from embarking upon intricate trains of inference. Such abstinence is only too easy.”

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Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect (1927).
1920s

“There is nothing in the real world which is merely an inert fact. Every reality is there for feeling: it promotes feeling; and it is felt.”

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Alfred North Whitehead könyv Process and Reality

Forrás: 1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929), Chapter IV, p. 310 https://books.google.com/books?id=uJDEx6rPu1QC&pg=PA310.

“It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.”

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Forrás: 1910s, An Introduction to Mathematics (1911), ch. 15.