Alfred North Whitehead

"Authority and conscience must be brought into a creative relation if civilization is to survive."

"Philosophy is the product of wonder."

"There is no greater contradiction than that of the one and the many."

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change."

"The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ought to be."

"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations we can perform without thinking about them."

"The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue."

"Art is the aim of life."

"Intelligence is quickness to apprehend, by the few flashes of its bearings on that one sejunct character."

"The deepest principle of being is thus found to be creativeness."

"No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging deep indebtedness to worthy teachers."

"The first-rate mind must think in contradictions."

"The human body is a very imperfect affair, and we should like it very much better if it had not been designed while the designer was in a state of lunacy."

"There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths."

"Seek simplicity, but distrust it."

"The vitality of thought is in adventure."

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

"Freedom of thought is precious above almost everything."

"The purpose of education is not to fill a bucket, but to light a fire."

"Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them."

"Nature is a mode of synthesis and an expression of aesthetic experience."

"The ages of innocence are the ages of instinct; the ages of knowledge are the ages of analysis."

"A system that does not include the future is too narrow for the present."

"Humanity is driven forward by the search for expression in varied forms."

"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."

"The very foundations of thought are the very foundations of action."

"One massive myth that characterizes our age is that the human mind functions like a logical machine."

"Art is the effort of man to express, not to expose, his sense of what he sees in nature."

"The deliberative function should be performed in the light of a clear vision of the ultimate aims of human life."

"Religion is the art and the theory of the internal life of man."