Whitehead, Alfred North

"The measure of civilization is the measure of its artistic expression."

"Change is not something that happens to us; it happens within us."

"Matter is the most obvious illustration of a general principle—that individual existence is derived from process."

"The primary principle is that the purposes, aspirations, and ideals of the immediate present are alone relevant."

"No event is absorbed into the past; it remains eternally present in the form of a decided actuality."

"The human mind can be trained to work properly, but it must be set to work upon matter that interests it."

"Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts."

"The function of reason is to promote the art of life."

"Seek the concrete facts of experience in each individual case."

"The stability of matter is the stability of patterns."

"Ethics and aesthetics are one."

"Your learning must be achieved by yourself and your learning should be perpetual."

"We are only beginning to understand the possibilities of form."

"The antithesis between individualism and socialism is false; the true antithesis is between liberty and tyranny."

"Life is a self-balancing, self-adjusting process."

"The great advances in civilization have been procured by men who valued beauty."

"Discernment is the gift of clear eyes and a clean heart."

"The human body is a chemical factory of unparalleled subtlety."

"The purpose of human life is not to believe, but to realize."

"Time is nature's way of preventing everything from happening at once."

"The greatest religious experiences are not dogmatic but experiential."

"Conflict is the very essence of history."

"The human spirit can be broken by excessive rules and regulations."

"Peace is a state of the human spirit that must be cultivated."

"The worth of a man is the worth of his commitments."

"Science is a progressive self-correction of knowledge."

"Every event is a synthesis of elements drawn from the universe."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but right action in the face of fear."

"The demand for knowledge is endless."

"Power without love is destructive; love without power is ineffective."