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How the past perishes is how the future becomes.

How the past perishes is how the future becomes.

Alfred North Whitehead
Past
Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.

Alfred North Whitehead
Learning, Past, Errors
Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.57, Open Road Media

The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

Alfred North Whitehead
Past, Use It Or Lose It, Use Of Knowledge
Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.

Alfred North Whitehead
Life, Past, Emotion
Alfred North Whitehead (2012). “Nature and Life”, p.92, Cambridge University Press

Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.

Alfred North Whitehead
Past, Length Of Life, Progress
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1925). “SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD”

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

Alfred North Whitehead
Wisdom, Future, Past
Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

Alfred North Whitehead
Real, Adventure, Past
Alfred North Whitehead (1975). “Whitehead's American Essays in Social Philosophy”, Greenwood Publishing Group

The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.

Alfred North Whitehead
Adventure, Past, Greatness
Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.

Alfred North Whitehead
Adventure, Science, Past
Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.

Alfred North Whitehead
Past, Errors, Language
Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.57, Open Road Media

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.

Alfred North Whitehead
Past, Thinking, Details
Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.20, Open Road Media

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