Alfred North Whitehead

"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."

"Seek simplicity, and distrust it."

"It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true."

"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them."

"The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things."