The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Quote by Alfred North Whitehead
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The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
- Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
- Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
- 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.
- Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
- Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
- In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
- Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
- Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
- Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
- No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
Best Quotes
- I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
- Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.
- Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
- My dad always tell me to make decisions from love and not from fear.
- I'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love.
- The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
- So you can say, 'Get Big Government out of here, and don't tell me what to eat,' but when kids are going to school, and they're being fed junk, we're pretty much telling them what to eat, and we're telling them junk is OK.
- The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
- Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.