Alfred North Whitehead Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• 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

• In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions. Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Ideas, Issues

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

• Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Men, Feelings, Culture

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

• 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”

• Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Lying, Sunset

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