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.
Tag: Alfred North Whitehead
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings.
A clash of doctrines is not a disaster–it is an opportunity.
It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.