From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
Alfred North WhiteheadCivilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Alfred North WhiteheadReligion carries two sorts of people in two entirely opposite directions: the mild and gentle people it carries towards mercy and justice; the persecuting people it carries into fiendish sadistic cruelty. Mind you, though this may seem to justify the eighteenth-century Age of Reason in its contention that religion is nothing but an organized, gigantic fraud and a curse to the human race, nothing could be farther from the truth. It possesses these two aspects, the evil one of the two appealing to people capable of naïve hatred; but what is actually happening is that when you get natures stirred to their depths over questions which they feel to be overwhelmingly vital, you get the bad stirred up in them as well as the good; the mud as well as the water. It doesn't seem to matter much which sect you have, for both types occur in all sects....
Alfred North WhiteheadTag: truth questions justice nature mercy hatred age-of-reason curse fraud sect vital
The art of progress is to reserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
Alfred North WhiteheadKecerdasan adalah kecepatan untuk memahami segala sesuatu,
sedangkan kemampuan adalah kesanggupan untuk bertindak bijaksana dalam menghadapi segala sesuatu.
...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.
Alfred North WhiteheadWe think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.
Alfred North WhiteheadTag: past think detail generalities
We think in generalities, but we live in details.
Alfred North WhiteheadIn formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of a defeat; but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress towards a victory.
Alfred North WhiteheadWe cannot think first and act afterwards. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only guide it by taking thought.
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