Alfred North Whitehead Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Reality, Class, World

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

• Value is coextensive with reality.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Reality, Values

• But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Creativity, Reality, Growth

  Alfred North Whitehead (2011). “Religion in the Making”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

• But in the prevalent discussion of classes, there are illegitimate transitions to the notions of a 'nexus' and of a 'proposition'. The appeal to a class to perform the services of a proper entity is exactly analogous to an appeal to an imaginary terrier to kill a real rat.
  Process and Reality

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Real, Class, Rats

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

• Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Reality, Growth, Essentials

  Alfred North Whitehead (2011). “Religion in the Making”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

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