Whitehead, Alfred North

"Respect for beauty is now the only thing that can save us."

"The transition from the old regime to the new regime is the sole foundation of all success."

"The true method of philosophy is like the flight of an aeroplane; it starts with the ground of particular observation."

"Exact knowledge is the enemy of discovery."

"The depths of friendship to which you can go with another person is the measure of how much you unblock yourself and allow the real you to be known."

"I have always held the opinion that the one thing worth doing is to draw out people whatever they think."

"No real doctor ever called himself a doctor."

"The safest way to destroy a nation is to debase its currency."

"The growth of trees is the growth of the world."

"The self is constituted by its relation to members of its society."

"Time is a mysterious thing that we think we know all about until we stop and really consider it."

"Courage is not the absence of fear. It is acting in spite of fear."

"The universe is made up of processes rather than substances."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"The creation of new understandings is the ultimate form of power."

"That your visions of truth may be clear is the whole art of education."

"Seek simplicity; then distrust it."

"The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus."

"The ulitmately real things are events and dynamic occurrences."

"Religion is the longing of the soul for the god-principle in nature."

"No past event has any significance by itself. Its significance lies in the future."

"The final principle is the fundamental principle of being."

"Understanding is the apex of existence."

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."

"Art is experience rendered coherent and meaningful."

"Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious."

"Every organism requires an environment of friends, that is to say, of allies."

"The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated."

"The great intellectual tradition of philosophy begins with wonder."

"Nature is not static but evolutionary."