A civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.

Alfred North Whitehead · The source reads: “A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.” · Adventures of Ideas (1933), ch. 19

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

Alfred North Whitehead

A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.

Alfred North Whitehead · Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (August 17, 1941)

There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

Alfred North Whitehead

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To write all things in a book is to leave a sword in the hands of a child.

Clement of Alexandria · The Stromata (Miscellanies), bk. 1

Something creative that has been done with love is to have done good.

Albert Einstein · The source reads: “Doing “good” (in an ethical sense) is in reality difficult to achieve. To me, something creative that has been done with love is to have done “good.”” · To Valentine Bulgakov, 4 November 1931.

The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease can be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must begin somewhere.

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 25 May 1911

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“A civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.”

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

“A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.”

“There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.”

“To write all things in a book is to leave a sword in the hands of a child.”

“Something creative that has been done with love is to have done good.”

“The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease can be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must begin somewhere.”