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If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
By Alfred North Whitehead
I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. . . But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming-- and a little mad.
By Alfred North Whitehead
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.
By Alfred North Whitehead
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
By Alfred North Whitehead
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
By Alfred North Whitehead
Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
By Alfred North Whitehead
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
By Alfred North Whitehead
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
By Alfred North Whitehead
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
By Alfred North Whitehead
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
By Alfred North Whitehead