The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.
Alfred North WhiteheadVigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.
Alfred North WhiteheadIt is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.
Alfred North Whitehead