“The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.”

— Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas, 1933

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.”

“You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.”

“It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life.”

“There are but three events in a man's life: birth, life and death.”

“No man loves life like him that's growing old.”

“No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.”

“Each of us lives only now, this brief instant.”