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hey_1028: "Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language."--by Alfred North Whitehead
tpmquiz: Bertrand Russell wrote the 3 volumes of Principia Mathematica with Alfred North Whitehead.
hey_1028: "Seek simplicity, and distrust it."--by Alfred North Whitehead
Myshkin08: "God does not create the world, he saves it: or, more accurately, he is the poet of the world, with tender patience leading it by his vision of truth, beauty and goodness" - Alfred North Whitehead
fraskyfizzle: Writers Inspirational Quotes
A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.
- Alfred North Whitehead
_ryancagle: “[God] saves the world as it passes into the immediacy of his own life. It is the judgment of a tenderness which loses nothing that can be saved."
-Alfred North Whitehead
iMoGalore: Writers Inspirational Quotes
A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.
- Alfred North Whitehead
ctr4process: "What is done in the world is transformed into a reality in heaven, and the reality in heaven passes back into the world. By reason of this reciprocal relation, the love in the world passes into the love in heaven, and floods back again into the world." - Alfred North Whitehead
florets_zaynab: There are no whole truths; all truths are half truths. It is trying to tread them as whole truths that play the devil.
-Alfred North whitehead.
hey_1028: "Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language."--by Alfred North Whitehead
hey_1028: "Seek simplicity, and distrust it."--by Alfred North Whitehead
DanielNatal18: Alfred North Whitehead said, “Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.” If this is so, then all of civilization creates a tendency for humans to lose consciousness. To fall asleep. Behold the matrix!
nica6384: “No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.” – Alfred North Whitehead
hey_1028: "Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language."--by Alfred North Whitehead
contentmo: Writers Inspirational Quotes
A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.
- Alfred North Whitehead
wwwREMICca: "No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude." Alfred North Whitehead
TimeToExpand: The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Alfred North Whitehead
AllOnFire: Writers Inspirational Quotes
A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.
- Alfred North Whitehead
walterrhett: For the record, I was a Johns Hopkins Fellow in Community and Organization Systems. I had the right to post NYTimes comments
w/o review. Eight of us integrated Summerville HS as kids. I loved Ruth Benedict’s anthropology, Talcott Parsons and Alfred North Whitehead’s theories.
SergeyMarkov: The surprisingly short history of creativity
hey_1028: "Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language."--by Alfred North Whitehead
flakyfarseer: "Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious."
-Alfred North Whitehead
hey_1028: "Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language."--by Alfred North Whitehead
hey_1028: "Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language."--by Alfred North Whitehead
aronnemethcpnw: “Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. ”
- Alfred North Whitehead
philosophersmag: The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.--Alfred North Whitehead
ProcessAndFaith: "What is done in the world is transformed into a reality in heaven, and the reality in heaven passes back into the world. By reason of this reciprocal relation, the love in the world passes into the love in heaven, and floods back again into the world." - Alfred North Whitehead
_theasophia_: “No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.” – Alfred North Whitehead
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orzgard: Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Encyclonomicon: "The great conquerors, from Alexander to Caesar, and from Caesar to Napoleon, influenced profoundly the lives of subsequent generations. But the total effect of this influence shrinks to insignificance,"
—Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World (1925)
Kandaswamy4: “Civilization advances by extending the number of operations which we can perform without thinking about them.”
- Alfred North Whitehead, English Philosopher
hey_1028: "Seek simplicity, and distrust it."--by Alfred North Whitehead
tonyfasousa: Writers Inspirational Quotes
A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.
- Alfred North Whitehead
tpmquote: Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.--Alfred North Whitehead
hey_1028: "Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language."--by Alfred North Whitehead
operantbaby: ‘No black scorpion is falling on this table’.
- Alfred North Whitehead
brett_jordan: War can protect;
it cannot create.
— Alfred North Whitehead
noetic_emetic: “trust the process “ - Alfred North Whitehead
Outsideness: "A brief, and sufficiently accurate, description of the intellectual life of the European races ... up to our own times is that they have been living upon the accumulated capital of ideas provided for them by the genius of the seventeenth century."
-- Alfred North Whitehead
SustainSystems: Panpsychism and Alfred North Whitehead
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hey_1028: "Seek simplicity, and distrust it."--by Alfred North Whitehead
tpmquote: The safest general characterisation of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.--Alfred North Whitehead
mwanziamut42921: Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.,Alfred North Whitehead,Ability, Act, Capacity ,
hey_1028: "Seek simplicity, and distrust it."--by Alfred North Whitehead
markdgilliland: This week on my podcast; Join me as I talk about the quote. "We think in generalities, but live in detail." - Alfred North Whitehead - Zen Quote Notes
Altimor: Quote that’s been on my mind lately:
“Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them.”
— Alfred North Whitehead
marykhamala47: Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.,Alfred North Whitehead,Human, Last, Refuge ,
hey_1028: "Seek simplicity, and distrust it."--by Alfred North Whitehead
marcioschuster: “But the motive of success is not enough. It produces a short-sighted world which destroys the source of its own prosperity”- Alfred North Whitehead
n86820599: We think in generalities but we live in detail.,Alfred North Whitehead,positive,
pratikchhajed52: Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them.
—Alfred North Whitehead
What happens when you have intelligence on an API?
lafeum_en: "The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it."
- Alfred North Whitehead
cryptoMaxi420: Isn't it beautiful how under PoS, we can choose the exact time for upgrades, unlike PoW where there's always uncertainty? As Alfred North Whitehead once said, "Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them."
kipno49988: It is the business of the future to be dangerous.,Alfred North Whitehead,risks,
josephi87565521: Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.,Alfred North Whitehead,Ability, Act, Capacity ,
HELLENM16293854: Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. Think of those Galilean peasants.,Alfred North Whitehead,instincts,
abdohar24585161: True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.,Alfred North Whitehead,courage,
julietamondi55: Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.,Alfred North Whitehead,society, social,
RhysLindmark: "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them."
Alfred North Whitehead, 1911
iMoGalore: Writers Inspirational Quotes
A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.
- Alfred North Whitehead
matolog56566937: It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.,Alfred North Whitehead,philosophy,
HeshamAlgol111: Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.,Alfred North Whitehead,Ability, Act, Capacity ,
EnosKonopelski2: Process-Relational Philosophy: An Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead MLJOFRG
AllOnFire: Writers Inspirational Quotes
A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.
- Alfred North Whitehead
harshil__78: Alfred North Whitehead: "I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether."
SMcfarnell: ‘Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.’
Alfred North Whitehead
contentmo: Writers Inspirational Quotes
A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Adam_Sung: “The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”
― Alfred North Whitehead
KungFuShoesSays: "I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether." Alfred North Whitehead
tpmquiz: Alfred North Whitehead was born in which year - 1861; 1871; 1881; or 1891?
tpmquiz: The British philosopher and mathematician, Alfred North Whitehead, was born in Ramsgate, UK, in 1861.
neeleshmaharaj3: The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity~Alfred North Whitehead
d_parsonage: “Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.”
- Alfred North Whitehead
hey_1028: "Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language."--by Alfred North Whitehead
adamsturch1: "Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude."
- Alfred North Whitehead
motivazer: Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. - Alfred North Whitehead
contentmo: Writers Inspirational Quotes
A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Amy31129057: We think generalities, but we live in detail.
~Alfred North Whitehead
walterhpierce2: This quote from Alfred North Whitehead fits well into my Definition of Creativity (ART) category. To study more quote-posters from this phase of the Creative Process go to:
BudLauv32363767: A civilized society is one that exhibits the five qualities of truth beauty adventure art and peace.,Alfred North Whitehead,civilization,
JamesPPinkerton: Alfred North Whitehead said, All history is a footnote to Plato. As an historical subset, financial history is a footnote, or sidebar, to the wrong-headed phrase, "This Time It's Different," title of 2011 book by Reinhart and Rogoff.
hey_1028: "Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language."--by Alfred North Whitehead
VishweshMasurk: "I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether."
-Alfred North Whitehead
AncientWisdomHQ: "I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether."
- Alfred North Whitehead
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gerrysalole: I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.
Alfred North Whitehead
Thouotes: "I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether." — Alfred North Whitehead
0starkafterdark: Love it or hate it, one can't deny the influence of Platonism on western philosophy - British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead memorably described the European philosophical tradition as "a series of footnotes to Plato"
HerliLie: quote of the day quotes of the day Alfred North Whitehead: "I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning…
hey_1028: "Seek simplicity, and distrust it."--by Alfred North Whitehead
Logiclent5756: Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.,Alfred North Whitehead,aesthetics, art, experience, pattern-recognition,
Ishaka4Ishaka: Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.,Alfred North Whitehead,society, social,
rgtrendsetter: Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
-Alfred North Whitehead
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rgtrendsetter: Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
-Alfred North Whitehead
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SHAYLADORSEY12: In addition to these seminal philosophers, other key figures in the modern analytic tradition include Alfred North Whitehead, Charles Sanders Peirce, Richard Rorty, and Michael Dummett.
fraskyfizzle: Writers Inspirational Quotes
A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.
- Alfred North Whitehead
DatchouDanssou3: A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied he is content.,Alfred North Whitehead,writers, writing,
AllOnFire: Writers Inspirational Quotes
A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.
- Alfred North Whitehead
mcclure77mjsd: Physics of the World-Soul: Alfred North Whitehead's Adventure in Cosmology NMO19WF
GPunktDanke: "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them."
- Alfred North Whitehead