“The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.”

— 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.”

“Error is the price we pay for progress.”

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

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“Remember that all is opinion.”

“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered.”

“Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.”

“Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.”

“Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive.”