Alfred North Whitehead Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

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

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Life, Math, Mind

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.160, David R. Godine Publisher

• The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Life, Time, Inspiration

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

• Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Life, Truth, Math

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

• Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Life, Religion, Degenerates

• Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Life, Symbolism, Fancy

  Alfred North Whitehead (1985). “Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect”, p.61, Fordham Univ Press

• 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.

• Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Inspirational, Life, Religion

• Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Life, Math, Offensive

  Adventures of Ideas (1933) pt. 1, ch. 5

• 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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