In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.
Alfred North WhiteheadWhat is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.
Alfred North WhiteheadSpeak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
Alfred North WhiteheadRoutine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork.
Alfred North WhiteheadOne main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
Alfred North WhiteheadThe ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance.
Alfred North Whitehead