“The major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur.”
More from Alfred Whitehead on Philosophy
“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.”
“What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.”
“It is the business of the future to be dangerous.”
“Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.”
Others on Philosophy
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“Nothing endures but change.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds...”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.”
Sigmund Freud
13 quotes“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.”