It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.
Alfred North WhiteheadThe vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.
Alfred North WhiteheadIt is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
Alfred North WhiteheadWhat the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.
Alfred North Whitehead