More quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."
"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."
"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."
"Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains."