Alfred North Whitehead Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• How the past perishes is how the future becomes.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Past

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

• The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Adventure, Past, Greatness

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

• Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Adventure, Science, Past

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

• A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Real, Adventure, Past

  Alfred North Whitehead (1975). “Whitehead's American Essays in Social Philosophy”, Greenwood Publishing Group

• The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Wisdom, Future, Past

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.3, 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

• Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Past, Length Of Life, Progress

  ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1925). “SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD”

• The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Past, Use It Or Lose It, Use Of Knowledge

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

• Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Past, Errors, Language

  Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.57, Open Road Media

• Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Learning, Past, Errors

  Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.57, Open Road Media

• We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Past, Thinking, Details

  Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.20, Open Road Media

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