Alfred North Whitehead

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. ”

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals. ”

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. ”