Frases de Alfred North Whitehead (117 citações, página 2)

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“A insistência na clareza a qualquer preço baseia-se em pura superstição sobre o modo como funciona a inteligência humana.”

Alfred North Whitehead

Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions.
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“The scientific mentality instinctively holds that all things great and small are conceivable as exemplifications of general principles which reign throughout the natural order, so that every detailed occurrence can be correlated with its antecedents in a perfectly definite manner, exemplifying general principles.”

Alfred North Whitehead

“É preciso ter uma mente muito fora do comum para analisar o óbvio.”

Alfred North Whitehead

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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“O primeiro homem que percebeu a analogia entre um grupo de sete peixes e um grupo de sete dias trouxe um notável avanço à história de pensamento.”

Alfred North Whitehead

But the first man who noticed the analogy between a group of seven fishes and a group of seven days made a notable advance in the history of thought.
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“A mentalidade científica pressupõe instintivamente que todas as coisas grandes e pequenas são concebíveis como exemplos de princípios gerais que reina em toda a ordem natural, De modo que toda ocorrência detalhada pode ser correlacionada com seus antecedentes de forma perfeitamente definida, exemplificando princípios gerais.”

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Alfred North Whitehead: Frases em inglês

“Philosophy may not neglect the multifariousness of the world — the fairies dance, and Christ is nailed to the cross.”

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Pt. V, ch. 1, sec. 1.
1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)
Contexto: There is a greatness in the lives of those who build up religious systems, a greatness in action, in idea and in self-subordination, embodied in instance after instance through centuries of growth. There is a greatness in the rebels who destroy such systems: they are the Titans who storm heaven, armed with passionate sincerity. It may be that the revolt is the mere assertion by youth of its right to its proper brilliance, to that final good of immediate joy. Philosophy may not neglect the multifariousness of the world — the fairies dance, and Christ is nailed to the cross.

“He gave them speech, and they became souls”

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Modes of Thought (1938).
1930s
Contexto: The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact, then it is not going too far to say that the souls of men are the gift from language to mankind. The account of the sixth day should be written: He gave them speech, and they became souls.

“The essence of education is that it be religious. Pray, what is religious education? A religious education is an education which inculcates duty and reverence.”

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1920s, The Aims of Education (1929)
Contexto: The essence of education is that it be religious. Pray, what is religious education? A religious education is an education which inculcates duty and reverence. Duty arises from our potential control over the course of events. Where attainable knowledge could have changed the issue, ignorance has the guilt of vice. And the foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.

“The task of philosophy is to recover the totality obscured by the selection.”

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Pt. I, ch. 1, sec. 6.
1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)
Contexto: Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity. Each actual occasion contributes to the circumstances of its origin additional formative elements deepening its own peculiar individuality. Consciousness is only the last and greatest of such elements by which the selective character of the individual obscures the external totality from which it originates and which it embodies. An actual individual, of such higher grade, has truck with the totality of things by reason of its sheer actuality; but it has attained its individual depth of being by a selective emphasis limited to its own purposes. The task of philosophy is to recover the totality obscured by the selection.

“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.”

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Fonte: 1910s, An Introduction to Mathematics (1911), ch. 5. 
Contexto: It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle — they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.