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

— Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, 1929

About Alfred North Whitehead

1861 – 1947

English mathematician and philosopher.

“Education with inert ideas is not only useless: it is, above all things, harmful.”

“The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.”

“Error is the price we pay for progress.”

“There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.”

“Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.”

“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.”

“Conquer anger with love, evil with good, meanness with generosity, and lies with truth.”

“Strive, and hold cheap the strain; / Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!”

“Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity.”