Alfred North Whitehead on Visions

Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead

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The power of God is the worship He inspires. That religion is strong which in its ritual and its modes of thought evokes an apprehension of the commanding vision. The worship of God is not a rule of safety⁠—it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable. The death of religion comes with the repression of the high hope of adventure.

Alfred North Whitehead (ellipsis and emphasis added), “Religion and Science (chapter XII),” Science and the Modern World: Lowell Lectures, 1925, page 268–269, Alfred North Whitehead, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1925

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