It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about […]
Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages.
I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race… It would be impossible to imagine anything more un-Christlike than theology. Christ probably couldn’t have understood it.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
In the past, human life was lived in a bullock cart; in the future, it will be lived in an aeroplane; and the change of speed amounts to a difference in quality.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
The total absence of humor in the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature
An aristocracy that shirks its leadership is done for. Its only excuse for existence is that it takes the lead.
Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
We cannot think first and act afterwards. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
