Alfred North Whitehead

"The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity."

"The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance."

"In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed."

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

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."

"In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed."

"All of Western philosophy is but a footnote to Plato."

"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."

"The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature."

"No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude."

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