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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Alfred North Whitehead

Philosophy, Done, Wonder

Alfred North Whitehead (1968). “Modes of Thought”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?

Alfred North Whitehead

Philosophy, Simple, Asks

Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.81, Open Road Media

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

Alfred North Whitehead

Philosophy, Wonder, Products

Alfred North Whitehead (2012). “Nature and Life”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.

Alfred North Whitehead

Philosophy, Errors, Chiefs

Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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

Alfred North Whitehead

Philosophy, Danger, Chiefs

Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.

Alfred North Whitehead

Philosophy, Science, Evidence

Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the final aim of philosophy, the flux of things is one ultimate generalization around which we must weave our philosophical system.

Alfred North Whitehead

Philosophy, Philosophical, Doubt

Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.

Alfred North Whitehead

Philosophy, Self, Excess

Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

Alfred North Whitehead

Philosophy, Science, Secret

ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1925). “SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD”

There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so obvious that people do not know what they are assuming because no other way of putting things has ever occurred to them. With these assumptions a certain limited number of types of philosophic systems are possible, and this group of systems constitutes the philosophy of the epoch.

Alfred North Whitehead

Philosophy, Numbers, People

Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.48, Simon and Schuster