Alfred North Whitehead quotes

" Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. " # Action # Creativity # Age and Aging

" The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. " # Youth # Life and Living # Tragedies

" The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. " # Progress # Change # Arts and Artists

" Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced. " # Ideas

" Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. " # Quotations

" We think in generalities, but we live in detail. " # Detail

" Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. " # Arts and Artists # Beauty # Experience

" Common sense is genius in homespun. " # Common Sense

" Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious. " # Common Sense # Problems # Familiarity

" Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. " # Familiarity # Death and Dying # Action