Alfred North Whitehead Quotes About Human Nature

Quotes about: Human Nature

• We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Block, Simple, Vision

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

• The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of God's agency in the world. The record is fragmentary, inconsistent, and uncertain. . . . But there can be no doubt as to what elements in the record have evoked a response from all that is best in human nature. The Mother, the Child, and the bare manger: the lowly man, homeless and self-forgetful, with his message of peace, love, and sympathy: the suffering, the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair: and the whole with the authority of supreme victory.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Life, Mother, Peace

  1938 Adventures of Ideas.

• Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Speech, Language, Human Nature

  Alfred North Whitehead (1968). “Modes of Thought”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

• Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Religion, Human Nature, Reactions

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

• Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Humanity, Quality, Human Nature

  Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.142, Open Road Media

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