Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.
The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.
How the past perishes is how the future becomes.
The kindness of the American people is, so far as I know, something unique in the history of the world.
Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.
It is the business of the future to be dangerous.
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive.
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it. .
Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099
Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.