Alfred North WhiteheadA collection of 22 posts

Humor

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in ...

History

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on som...

Future

The task of a university is the creation of the future so far as rational thoug...

Experience

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

Experience

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Death

Not ignorance but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.

Courage

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes but the firm resolve of v...

Change

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid...

Business

It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of s...

Best

Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done ...