Whitehead, Alfred North

"Duty arises from our potential control over the course of events."

"Learning is acquisition of the art of the utilization of knowledge."

"The basis of democracy is faith in the common people."

"Each age produces a literature that is perfectly suited to it."

"Wisdom is the fruit of philosophy."

"The deliberate aim at Peace very easily passes into its basest travesty, Anesthesia."

"Creativity is the ultimate expression of power."

"Nature is alive and creative; it is not a dead mechanism."

"The business world has not adjusted itself to the fact of the machine age."

"Culture is not a static thing; it is a continuous process."

"A culture is in decline when its individuals are satisfied with themselves."

"All knowledge is abstract; no concrete fact is ever conveyed in thought."

"The education system should train individuals to think for themselves."

"In a properly constructed society, leisure is not idleness."

"Language is incomplete and fragmentary."

"The basis of science is not authority but experience."

"Great truths are often simple things recognized when stated."

"Life is a perpetual struggle with Forms."

"The rhythm of civilization is the rhythm of growth and decay."

"Moral education is impossible apart from the assumption that it is the business of every parent and teacher."

"The distinction between the world of sense and the world of science is merely a difference in the mode of abstraction."

"Importance is not intrinsic to a physical fact."

"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."

"We must design our civilization on the assumption that human beings are more important than machines."

"Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge."

"The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention."

"In the real world, memory is always an interpretation, never a literal recording."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time."

"Art is the production of mighty things from mighty causes according to human nature."

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