In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections.
Alfred North WhiteheadThere are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
Alfred North WhiteheadThe safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
Alfred North WhiteheadAlmost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
Alfred North Whitehead