Alfred North Whitehead Quotes About Humanity

Quotes about: Humanity

• If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Dog, Cat, Animal

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.183, David R. Godine Publisher

• Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Educational, Ignorance, Greatness

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

• It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Expression, Humanity, Literature

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.75, 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

• 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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