1861-1947, English Mathematician, Philosopher
Actualization / Fulfillment
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain types of ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead , 1954
Art
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Ibid.
Cause
The causes I am inclined to think are there all along, and the events which we see, are only the last steps in long lines of causation.
Ibid.No event can be wholly and solely the cause of another event. The whole antecedent world conspires to produce a new occasion.
Modes of Thought , 1938
Change
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive.
Wisdom for The Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing , © 2004