Whitehead Process Quotes

#1. The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning. - Author: Alfred North Whitehead

#2. You could go out and give a million dollars to a charity tomorrow to help the homeless. You could argue that it is just wasted. They are not putting anything back into the community. - Author: Gerry Harvey

#3. So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world. - Author: John Polkinghorne

#4. It is necessary for everyone to develop their internal personality - Author: Sunday Adelaja

#5. Learning how to fight properly and deciding what to fight about are two of the secrets to a successful marriage. It usually comes down to the "line of respect" one way or the other. - Author: James C. Dobson

#6. The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private property: in other words, the expropriation of the labourer. - Author: Karl Marx

#7. God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality ... - Author: Alfred North Whitehead

#8. If a spiritual teacher says something that doesn't make sense to you, you should always listen to yourself and not the teacher. A little common sense would end all cults. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#9. All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day. - Author: Alfred North Whitehead

#10. But in the prevalent discussion of classes, there are illegitimate transitions to the notions of a 'nexus' and of a 'proposition'. The appeal to a class to perform the services of a proper entity is exactly analogous to an appeal to an imaginary terrier to kill a real rat.
Process and Reality - Author: Alfred North Whitehead

#11. It is a visual temper tantrum. You are making an ineffective statement about this and that, a grotesque, self-defeating mockery of cultural standards of beauty, societal misogyny. It is a blow to your parents, at whom you are pissed. - Author: Marya Hornbacher

#12. Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards we can reverse the process and descend from the general to the particular, ascending and descending like angels on Jacob's ladder. - Author: Alfred North Whitehead

#13. Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem. - Author: Ann Brashares