The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.
Alfred North WhiteheadAlgebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.
Alfred North WhiteheadPeace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the "self" has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.
Alfred North WhiteheadNo period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
Alfred North Whitehead