EVERYDAY ATTITUDES
"Being is as much about Becoming
as Becoming is about Being." - R.E. Slater
Process Living is:
upLifting and uniting,
motivating and encouraging,
being and becoming...
bearing all things,
being all things,
becoming all things...
abiding all people,
reviving all relationships,
surviving all difficulties...
when pursuing faith,
overcoming obstacles,
suffering as Grace...
in sacrifice and service,
with diligence extended,
abiding, staying, doing...
reclaiming and redeeming,
renewing and resurrecting,
regenerating all about...
everyone,
everything,
everywhere,
ever and ever...
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process amplification
is singing, throbbing,
all around and in us,
across heaven and earth,
hearts and lands,
about, within, and from us,
unstoppable,
instoppable,
withheld no hand,
no soul, no land,
we are... as creation is...
as life and death are,
immortal wonders,
are, and are becoming...
R.E. Slater
December 15, 2023
revised December 19, 2023
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Quotes & Sayings by
Alfred North Whitehead
Wikipedia - Alfred North Whitehead OM FRS FBA (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He created the philosophical school known as process philosophy, which has been applied in a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology.
In his early career Whitehead wrote primarily on mathematics, logic, and physics. He wrote the three-volume Principia Mathematica (1910–1913), with his former student Bertrand Russell. Principia Mathematica is considered one of the twentieth century's most important works in mathematical logic, and placed 23rd in a list of the top 100 English-language nonfiction books of the twentieth century by Modern Library.
Beginning in the late 1910s and early 1920s, Whitehead gradually turned his attention from mathematics to [the] philosophy of science, and finally to metaphysics. He developed a comprehensive metaphysical system which radically departed from most of Western philosophy. Whitehead argued that reality consists of processes rather than material objects, and that processes are best defined by their relations with other processes, thus rejecting the theory that reality is fundamentally constructed by bits of matter that exist independently of one another. Whitehead's philosophical works – particularly Process and Reality – are regarded as the foundational texts of process philosophy.
Whitehead's process philosophy argues that "there is urgency in coming to see the world as a web of interrelated processes of which we are integral parts, so that all of our choices and actions have consequences for the world around us." For this reason, one of the most promising applications of Whitehead's thought in recent years has been in the area of ecological civilization and environmental ethics pioneered by John B. Cobb.
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Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realised; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.- Alfred North Whitehead
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The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.
- Alfred North Whitehead
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The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.
- Alfred North Whitehead, (2014),“Science and Philosophy”, p.54, Open Road Media
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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
- Alfred North Whitehead
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
- Alfred North Whitehead. Alfred North Whitehead, David Ray Griffin (1978), “Process and reality: an essay in cosmology”, Free Pr
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The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.- Alfred North Whitehead
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If a dog jumps into 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.
Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001), “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.183, David R. Godine Publisher
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It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
- Alfred North Whitehead
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After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.
- Alfred North Whitehead
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The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.
- Alfred North Whitehead,
1925 Science and the Modern World
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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophicthought has done its best, the wonder remains.- Alfred North Whitehead (1968),“Modes of Thought”, p.168, Simon and Schuster
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Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
- Alfred North Whitehead
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.- Alfred North Whitehead
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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
- Alfred North Whitehead
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There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.
- Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues prologue (1954)
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Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.- Alfred North Whitehead (2014),“Science and Philosophy”, p.142, Open Road Media
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The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.
- Alfred North Whitehead
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Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.- Alfred North Whitehead
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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1967),
“Aims of Education”, p.37, Simon and Schuster
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We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
- Alfred North Whitehead 2014),“Science and Philosophy”, p.20, Open Road Media
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In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1997),
“Science and the Modern World”, p.91, Simon and Schuster
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There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
- Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues prologue (1954)
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When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
- Alfred North Whitehead
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How the past perishes is how the future becomes.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1967),“Adventures of Ideas”, p.238, Simon and Schuster
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------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.- Alfred North Whitehead (1967),
“Aims of Education”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un-Christianlike than theology.- Alfred North Whitehead
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There is urgency in coming to see the world as a web of interrelatedprocesses of which we are integral parts, so that all of our choicesand actions have consequences for the world around us."
- Alfred North Whitehead
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| "I imagine we will have to apply for a Royal Grant." - ANW to Bertrand Russell |
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| Whitehead papers are now available online - Whitehead Research Project |
