Alfred North Whitehead (Author of Process and Reality)

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Books by Alfred North Whitehead

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	Process and Reality (Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh During the Session 1927-28) 4.14 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 1978 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Science and the Modern World by Alfred North Whitehead, Talcott Parsons (Editor) 3.89 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 1931 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Adventures of Ideas 4.26 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1933 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Aims of Education 3.80 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1949 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Modes of Thought 3.89 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1968 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Religion in the Making 3.82 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1926 — 5 editions	My rating:
	An Introduction to Mathematics 3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1959 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Function of Reason 3.38 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1971 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Symbolism 3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1927 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Science And Philosophy 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	My rating:

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Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.”
― Alfred North Whitehead

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“Religion carries two sorts of people in two entirely opposite directions: the mild and gentle people it carries towards mercy and justice; the persecuting people it carries into fiendish sadistic cruelty. Mind you, though this may seem to justify the eighteenth-century Age of Reason in its contention that religion is nothing but an organized, gigantic fraud and a curse to the human race, nothing could be farther from the truth. It possesses these two aspects, the evil one of the two appealing to people capable of naïve hatred; but what is actually happening is that when you get natures stirred to their depths over questions which they feel to be overwhelmingly vital, you get the bad stirred up in them as well as the good; the mud as well as the water. It doesn't seem to matter much which sect you have, for both types occur in all sects....”
― Alfred North Whitehead

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“...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.”
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