Quote#Wisdom
Often things realised in thought are more vivid than than the same…
Quote byAlfred North Whitehead · 1861–1947
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 10: "Abstraction", p. 239.
English (original)
Often things realised in thought are more vivid than than the same things in inattentive physical experience. But the things apprehended as mental are always subject to the condition that we come to a stop when we come to explore ever higher grades of complexity in their realised relationships. We always find that we have thought of just this — whatever it may be — and of no more.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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