Whitehead, Alfred North

"Politics divorced from morality becomes tyranny."

"Nature teaches us that beauty and function are not opposites but partners."

"Motivation springs from understanding the purpose of one's work."

"Inspiration is the reward of disciplined attention."

"Relationships are the medium in which we discover ourselves."

"Solitude is not loneliness; it is the soul's conversation with itself."

"The gift of life is the opportunity to become who we are meant to be."

"In the midst of winter, nature contains the seed of spring."

"Every error contains within it a lesson for the wise."

"Beauty is the signature of truth in physical form."

"The first requirement for a sound body of law is that it should be understood."

"Seek simplicity, and distrust it."

"The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment."

"Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within the passing flux of immediate things."

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

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited."

"We think in generalities, but we live in detail."

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

"Ninety percent of the activity of any organization is pure waste."

"A modern mind is in complete disagreement with the past."

"Your enjoyment of the world is never complete unless you have left it better than you found it."

"The self-sufficient man is not the man you want. You want a man who is conscious of what he doesn't know."

"Speculative philosophy is the endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas."

"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."

"The individual is nothing. It is the species that counts."

"Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas."

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

"No great achievement is possible without persistent work."

"The vitality of thought is in adventure."