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In all philosophic theory there is an ultimate which is actual in virtue of its accidents.
Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
Adventures of Ideas (1933)
No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of all rationality.
Science and the Modern World (1925)
The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.
Adventures of Ideas (1933)
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
An Introduction to Mathematics (1911)
The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus.
Science and the Modern World (1925)
By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.
An Introduction to Mathematics (1911)
The ancient world takes its stand upon the drama of the Universe, the modern world upon the inward drama of the Soul.
Science and the Modern World (1925)
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
Every human being is the natural guardian of his own importance.
Science and the Modern World (1925)
That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
The Aims of Education (1929)
The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.
Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)
The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.
Science and the Modern World (1925)
Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not to-morrow be demonstrated truth.
Science and the Modern World (1925)
A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.
Adventures of Ideas (1933)
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
Adventures of Ideas (1933)
The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other.
Modes of Thought (1938)
There is nothing in the real world which is merely an inert fact. Every reality is there for feeling: it promotes feeling; and it is felt.
Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)
Sensitiveness without impulse spells decadence, and impulse without sensitiveness spells brutality.
Science and the Modern World (1925)
Scientists, animated by the purpose of proving they are purposeless, constitute an interesting subject for study.
The Function of Reason (1929)