Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.
Alfred North WhiteheadThe aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.
Alfred North WhiteheadEducation should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.
Alfred North WhiteheadIf a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
Alfred North WhiteheadThe worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. They can persuade and can be persuaded by the disclosure of alternatives, the better and the worse. Civilization is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness as embodying the nobler alternative. The recourse to force, however, unavoidable, is a disclosure of the failure of civilization, either in the general society or in a remnant of individuals. Thus in a live civilization there is always an element of unrest.
Alfred North Whitehead