Process Philosophy Quotes

[Beware of] the fallacy of misplaced concreteness [mistaking an abstraction for concrete reality, for actuality]

In the inescapable flux, there is something that abides; in the overwhelming permanence, there is an element that escapes into flux. Permanence can be snatched only out of flux; and the passing moment can find its adequate intensity only by its submission to permanence.

Error is the price we pay for progress.

In the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.

Creativity is the universal of universals characterizing ultimate matter of fact. It is that ultimate principle by which the many, which are the universe disjunctively, become the one actual occasion, which is the universe conjunctively. It lies in the nature of things that the many enter into complex unity.

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, "Seek simplicity and distrust it."

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

[From various of Whitehead's books, not only PR] ~ Alfred North Whitehead

PROCESS PHILOSOPHY, a school greatly influenced by Alfred North Whitehead, holds that mind and brain are manifestations of a single reality, one that is in constant flux. It thus is compatible with classical Buddhist philosophy, which views clear and penetrating awareness of change and impermanence (anicca in Pali) as the essence of insight. Thus, as Whitehead put it, "The reality is the process," and it is a process made up of vital transient "drops of experience, complex, and interdependent." This view is strikingly consistent with recent developments in quantum physics. ~ Jeffrey M. Schwartz

If you think you know everything,
there's nothing else to learn, until you learn...you don't know everything. ~ Coach Bridget Burns

Accept changes but be persistent with the process. ~ Debasish Mridha

Hard science gives sensational results with a horribly boring process; philosophy gives boring results with a sensational process; literature gives sensational results with a sensational process; and economics gives boring results with a boring process. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Generate an idea which you can follow, not what people would interpret. ~ Kunal Narayan Uniyal

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves. ~ Carl Sagan

I can talk about my father in ordinary conversation without feeling more than the slightest pang of loss. But if I permit myself to remember him closely - his sense of humor, say, or his passionate egalitarianism - the facade crumbles and I want to weep because he is gone. There is no question that language can almost free us of feeling. Perhaps that is one of its functions - to let us consider the world without in the process becoming entirely overwhelmed by feeling. If so, then the invention of language is simultaneously a blessing and a curse. ~ Carl Sagan

Higher consciousness means your self consciousness ceases to exist; you become the ocean of life and a part of the universe. ~ Debasish Mridha

Imagination is a reality for the heart. ~ Debasish Mridha

May and June. Soft syllables, gentle names for the two best months in the garden year: cool, misty mornings gently burned away with a warming spring sun, followed by breezy afternoons and chilly nights. The discussion of philosophy is over; it's time for work to begin. ~ H. Peter Loewer

Pink colors my world red! ~ Anthony T. Hincks

If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus his own ideas, thoughts and philosophies. ~ Allan W. Eckert

Ergo, while the Argument from Design appears to be a nice, neat answer to account for the presence of a multifarious Universe, the truth is that it backfires on itself, shifting the need for an explanation back and back and back…and back…without end, without resolution. This is called an infinite regress, and its presence in the logic of the argument fails to prove the existence of God; if anything, it reveals that the idea of a designer is patently ridiculous, even more so than a godless Cosmos. The argument therefore answers nothing; it merely moves the mystery of origins to an even higher level, demanding that the Creator have his own Creator. ~ Michael Vito Tosto

Philip doesn't let go, his eyes glinting with rage. We're gonna survive this thing,and we're gonna do it by being bigger monsters than they are! You understand? There ain't no philosophy, there ain't no grace, there ain't no mercy, there's only us and them, and all they wanna do is eat our ass! So we're gonna fucking eat them! We're gonna chew 'em up and spit 'em out, and we're gonna survive this thing or I will blow a hole through this whole fucked up world! You follow me? You FOLLOW ME! ~ Robert Kirkman

Your success should create a path that inspires others to follow. ~ Amitav Chowdhury

The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted. ~ Rita Levi-Montalcini

Our way is upward, from the species across to the super-species. But the degenerate mind which says 'All for me' is a horror to us. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

We see eternity through a microscopic window of time. ~ Debasish Mridha

Socrates is a shining example of a man who bravely lived up to his ideals, and, in the end, bravely died for them. Throughout his life, he never lost faith in the mind's ability to discern and decide, and so to apprehend and master reality. Nor did he ever betray truth and integrity for a pitiable life of self-deception and semi-consciousness. In seeking relentlessly to align mind with matter and thought with fact, he remained faithful both to himself and to the world, with the result that he is still alive in this sentence and millions of others that have been written about him. More than a great philosopher, Socrates was the living embodiment of the dream that philosophy might one day set us free. ~ Neel Burton

I am going through transformation. I enjoy the different transitions. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Nero would be long since forgotten without his outbursts of bloody clowning. ~ Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay ~ Emil Cioran

Don't give up. Life is a journey. And we are here to inspire each other. To touch each other's hearts. We are born for a purpose. We must find our purpose in life. And live our life for that purpose. ~ Avijeet Das

Life has its ups and downs. When you are up, enjoy the scenery. When you are down, touch the soul of your being and feel the beauty. ~ Debasish Mridha

Appreciate more to attract more,
Feel more to understand more.
Give away more to get more.
Love more to live more. ~ Debasish Mridha

Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her. ~ Isaac Newton

For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy. ~ Bertrand Russell

This intriguing 'somewhere else,' where intelligence no longer matters and awareness melts away, commands us to cherish our remains of innocence -- because of all the characteristics of human nature, the richest by far is passion for the perfectly useless. ~ Hans W. Silvester

We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that Stoicism is appropriate to a cosmopolitan despotism; that stochastic philosophy is an intellectual expression of the Church as an organization; that philosophy since Descartes, or at any rate since Locke, tends to embody the prejudices of the commercial middle class; and that Marxism and Fascism are the philosophies appropriate to the modern industrial state. ~ Bertrand Russell

A sound body with a non-judgmental mind and a heart full of love is the fountain of happiness. ~ Debasish Mridha

Storm clouds will always ignite the darker side of my passion. ~ Anthony T. Hincks

We may be far in distance but we will always be close in heart! ~ Avijeet Das

Don't seek the end at inception,
And don't grope for beginning in the end,
End has mergence and,
Inception has infinity. ~ Yash Thakur

Whatever you do, do with love to be the success and to find the joy. ~ Debasish Mridha

Keep your goal challenging enough that you have to change to achieve it. ~ Debasish Mridha