Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.
Alfred North WhiteheadIt is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
Alfred North WhiteheadMathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.
Alfred North WhiteheadSystems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.
Alfred North Whitehead