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Alfred North Whitehead (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He created the philosophical school known as process philosophy, which has been applied in a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology.

Quotes from Alfred North Whitehead

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

—Alfred North Whitehead

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If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

—Alfred North Whitehead

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We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

—Alfred North Whitehead

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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

—Alfred North Whitehead

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

—Alfred North Whitehead

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

—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.

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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

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There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

—Alfred North Whitehead