Alfred North Whitehead

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things…

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you…

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words…

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best…

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery…

It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the…

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows…

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid…

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious…

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge…

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination…

Wisdom alone is true ambition’s aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame…

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise…

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self…

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of…