More quotes by 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."
"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."
"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."
"Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self."
"In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed."