Philosophy Quote by Alfred North Whitehead — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

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

“There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.”

“Religion carries two sorts of people in two entirely opposite directions: the mild and gentle people it carries towards mercy and justice; the persecuting people it carries into fiendish sadistic cruelty. Mind you, though this may seem to justify the eighteenth-century Age of Reason in its contention that religion is nothing but an organized, gigantic fraud and a curse to the human race, nothing could be farther from the truth. It possesses these two aspects, the evil one of the two appealing to people capable of naïve hatred; but what is actually happening is that when you get natures stirred to their depths over questions which they feel to be overwhelmingly vital, you get the bad stirred up in them as well as the good; the mud as well as the water. It doesn't seem to matter much which sect you have, for both types occur in all sects....”

“Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.”

“One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of life cannot be estimated.”

“The road ahead is long and there will be many setbacks. Success is not assured… but the price of failure has never been this high.”

“الكتب كالبشر .. قليل منها يلعب دورا عظيما”

“One picture puzzle piece”

“There is no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.”

“We live in deeds not years In thoughts not breaths In feelings not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.”