Alfred North Whitehead Quotes About Philosophy

Quotes about: Philosophy

• Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Philosophy, Done, Wonder

  Alfred North Whitehead (1968). “Modes of Thought”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

• Philosophy is the product of wonder.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Philosophy, Wonder, Products

  Alfred North Whitehead (2012). “Nature and Life”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

• The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Philosophy, Errors, Chiefs

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

• Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Philosophy, Science, Evidence

• Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Philosophy, Science, Secret

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

• Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Philosophy, Self, Excess

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

• There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so obvious that people do not know what they are assuming because no other way of putting things has ever occurred to them. With these assumptions a certain limited number of types of philosophic systems are possible, and this group of systems constitutes the philosophy of the epoch.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Philosophy, Numbers, People

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

• Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Philosophy, Simple, Asks

  Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.81, Open Road Media

• Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Philosophy, Effort, Romance

  Alfred North Whitehead (2012). “Nature and Life”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

• Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the final aim of philosophy, the flux of things is one ultimate generalization around which we must weave our philosophical system.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Doubt

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

• The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Philosophy, Danger, Chiefs

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

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