Alfred North Whitehead, British mathematician and philosopher (1861-1947)
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.
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