More quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

"Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self."
"No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude."
"All of Western philosophy is but a footnote to Plato."
"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."
"The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature."