Alfred North Whitehead

I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

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

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

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

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.