When you are criticizing the philosophy of an epoch, do not chiefly direct your attention to those intellectual positions which its exponents feel it necessary explicitly to defend. There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents to all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so obvious that people do not know what they are assuming because no other way of putting things has ever occurred to them. With these assumptions a certain limited number of types of philosophic systems are possible, and this group of systems constitutes the philosophy of the epoch.
Alfred North WhiteheadTag: philosophy assumptions worldview
It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
Alfred North WhiteheadNobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.
Alfred North WhiteheadLife is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.
Alfred North WhiteheadTag: life expression emotion feeling desire complex
Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.
Alfred North WhiteheadThere are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
Alfred North WhiteheadTag: truth honesty objectivity
The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.
Alfred North WhiteheadMy criticism of Hegel procedure is that when in his discussion he arrives at a contradiction, he construes it as a crisis in the universe.
Alfred North WhiteheadTag: universe crisis criticism contradiction georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel hegel
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