Alfred North Whitehead
philosopher , mathematician
Attributed
- "There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil."
- "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking."
- "The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy."
- "The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."
- "The vitality of thought is an adventure. Idea's won't keep. Something must be done about them."
- "It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."
- "Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe."
