More quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

"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."
"The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature."
"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."
"No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude."