The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.
Alfred North WhiteheadI have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
Alfred North WhiteheadNo period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
Alfred North WhiteheadThe whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning.
Alfred North Whitehead