Alfred North Whitehead

"The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom."

"Memory is the cement of personal identity and it bridges the consciousness of different times."

"Belief demands proof while faith asks for commitment."

"The greatest achievements are almost always built upon the work of countless predecessors."

"A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of these he can make a few whom he has never met."

"Philosophy is the product of wonder; it begins in wonder and ends in wonder."

"The perception of matter in space is the origin of all real knowledge."

"Just as Descartes was the philosopher of substance and Locke of experience, Kant is the philosopher of criticism."

"Romance is a factor in all great civilizations and it is more important than we think."

"The value of a man is not in the place which he has attained, but in his purpose for life."

"Wisdom is the fruit of good judgment, and good judgment is the fruit of experience."

"The ultimate explanations of life must start from the notion of force, or activity, or creation."

"Education is the process of absorbing the culture in which you live."

"The problem with intellectual responsibility is that it is so easily transferred to others."

"Nature is creative in its essence. It is always striving toward something new."

"The two systems which dominate thought are mechanism and organism."

"Civilization is the activity of realizing universal dreams in local dreams."

"Imagination can be regarded as the greatest gift possible to the human mind."

"The basis of democracy is that power is held in check and that no individual or group dominates."

"Every philosophy is the product of its time; it cannot transcend its period."

"The growth of understanding is the primary purpose of any civilization."

"Every organism requires an environment to sustain itself and give it meaning."

"The function of reason is ever to combine and then to rise above the combinations."

"A person is a society in the microcosm, organized under a monarchy."

"Speculative philosophy is the endeavor to find a scheme of the general ideas which will apply to everything."

"The safest principle of conduct is to know yourself."

"The happiness of individuals is the final end of action, but it is not always the guide to action."

"Abstract logical thought is a small fragment of the human experience."

"Truth is something that survives only in the context of an ongoing search."

"Excellence is not a skill, it is an attitude that permeates all we do."