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Alfred North Whitehead on Philosophy

1861–1947 England

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The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.

Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)

My criticism of [Hegel's] procedure is that when in his discussion he arrives at a contradiction, he construes it as a crisis in the universe.

Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.

Philosophy may not neglect the multifariousness of the world — the fairies dance, and Christ is nailed to the cross.

Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)

Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.

Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)

The task of philosophy is to recover the totality obscured by the selection.

Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)

The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.

Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)

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

Modes of Thought (1938)

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