The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.
Alfred North WhiteheadThe world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.
Alfred North WhiteheadThe art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
Alfred North WhiteheadGreat art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul's self-attainment. It justifies itself both by its immediate enjoyment, and also by its discipline of the inmost being. Its discipline is not distinct from enjoyment but by reason of it. It transforms the soul into the permanent realization of values extending beyond its former self.
Alfred North Whitehead