Alfred North Whitehead

"The purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts, but to teach them how to think."

"There are no self-contained societies. We live in a world of process."

"The measure of greatness is how much time a person spends thinking about death."

"Knowledge does not keep any better than fish."

"The learned tradition is not self-supporting; it requires the unselfconscious activities of human beings."

"All natural objects are processes, not things."

"The distinction between the physical and the mental is mainly one of practical convenience."

"Civilization is a success only if it promotes human flourishing."

"The love of power and the power of love are the two fundamental forces in the universe."

"True courage is not the absence of fear, but the assessment that something else is more important."

"Wisdom is the fruit of a life rightly spent."

"The world as we know it is constructed through a process of abstraction."

"Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness."

"The great ages have not preserved the balanced judgment."

"Imagination is more important than understanding."

"To be an effective leader, you must understand what you don't know."

"Progress takes place by the improvement of traditions."

"The perception of beauty is a moral test."

"The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the course of life."

"Absolute stability is death; relative stability is life."

"Every organism requires an environment of friends, to use a large definition of friends."

"Language is not a perfect instrument; it wears out with use."

"The world is a process, not a substance."

"Without adventure, civilization is not stable."

"The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."

"Morality of outlook is the praise of the habit of attending to the whole."

"Thought is abstract; enjoyment is concrete."

"The function of reason is not to prove that the past dominates the present."

"In the real world, love and reason are incompatible rivals."

"The varied richness of human experience is the greatest treasure of civilization."