Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
Alfred North Whitehead

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North Whitehead

Philosophy is the product of wonder.
Alfred North Whitehead

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
Alfred North Whitehead

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
Alfred North Whitehead

Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
Alfred North Whitehead

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Alfred North Whitehead

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead