Alfred North Whitehead Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Independent, Literature, Way

  Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.54, Open Road Media

• Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when occasion arises, we select the right page to read aloud to the universe.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Book, Pages, Select

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

• The Universe is vast. Nothing is more curious than the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. Skeptics and believers are alike. At this moment scientists and skeptics are the leading dogmatists. Advance in detail is admitted; fundamental novelty is barred. This dogmatic common sense is the death of philosophic adventure.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Adventure, Self, Common Sense

• The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad... Truth matters because of beauty.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Beauty, Discovery, Matter

• 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

• The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Self, Oneness, Diversity

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

• In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till it has merged its individual claim with that of the objective universe. Religion is world-loyalty.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Loyalty, World, Way

  Alfred North Whitehead (2011). “Religion in the Making”, p.49, Cambridge University Press

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