Alfred North Whitehead Quote

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.


"The Education of an Englishman" in The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 138 (1926), p. 192.


We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.