Alfred North Whitehead Quotes About Emotions

Quotes about: Emotions

• 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.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Powerful, Sight, Ideas

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.228, David R. Godine Publisher

• Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Clothes, Brain, Would Be

  "Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead" by Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price, Ch. 29, 1954.

• Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Emotional, Feelings, Accessories

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

• It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery - Columbus when he first saw the Western shore, Pizarro when he stared at the Pacific Ocean, Franklin when the electric spark came from the string of his kite, Galileo when he first turned his telescope to the heavens. Such moments are also granted to students in the abstract regions of thought, and high among them must be placed the morning when Descartes lay in bed and invented the method of co-ordinate geometry.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Morning, Ocean, Adventure

• Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Emotion, Life Is, Ninety

  "Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead" by Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price, Ch. 29, 1954.

• It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Knowledge And Power, Impossible, Emotion

  Alfred North Whitehead (2007). “The Concept of Nature”, p.73, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Expression, Feelings, Desire

  Alfred North Whitehead (1925). “An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge”

• In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Change, Practice, Dumb

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

• Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Life, Past, Emotion

  Alfred North Whitehead (2012). “Nature and Life”, p.92, Cambridge University Press

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