Alfred North Whitehead Quotes About Religion

Quotes about: Religion

• I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Race, Religion, Would Be

• We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Inspirational, Time, Educational

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

• I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Christian, Race, Religion

  "Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead".

• Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Religion, Atheism, Lasts

  Alfred North Whitehead (2011). “Religion in the Making”, p.26, Cambridge University Press

• Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Religion, Doe, Individual

  Alfred North Whitehead (2011). “Religion in the Making”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

• As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Mean, Religion, Adherence

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.15, 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

• Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Inspirational, Life, Religion

• Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Religion, Human Nature, Reactions

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

• The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Religious, Pain, Optimism

  Science and the ModernWorld ch. 12 (1925)

• No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Religion, Followers, Type

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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