Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.… - Alfred North Whitehead

" "
Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.
Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. The limitation, and the basis arising from what is already actual, are both of them necessary and interconnected.

Alfred North Whitehead

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

English

Collect this quote

About Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead, OM (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy, which today has found application to a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology, among other areas.

Biography information from Wikiquote

All quotes from Alfred North Whitehead Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Alfred North Whitehead:

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel William James John Dewey Henri Bergson Immanuel Kant

Additional quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren’t.

In the past human life was lived in a bullock cart; in the future it will be lived in an aeroplane; and the change of speed amounts to a difference in quality.

the business of Logic is not the analysis of generalities but their mingling.

Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. The limitation, and th… - Alfred North Whitehead

About Alfred North Whitehead

Works in ChatGPT, Claude, or Any AI

Additional quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

Works in ChatGPT, Claude, or Any AI