Alfred North Whitehead Quote

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.


Pt. II, ch. 1, sec. 1. - Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)


The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.