Alfred North Whitehead - Adventures of ideas (1933)

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Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.

Alfred North Whitehead

Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.

Alfred North Whitehead

A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be, and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.

Alfred North Whitehead

Systems, scientific and philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.

Alfred North Whitehead

The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.

Alfred North Whitehead