Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

We can understand first of all that what is happening in the world of becoming, the world we all experience as beings, is that novelty is entering into being, and it is changing the modalities of the real world toward greater and greater levels of integration.

Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.

Nothing is, everything is becoming.

The Greeks do not think correctly about coming-to-be and passing-away; for no thing comes to be or passes away, but is mixed together and dissociated from the things that are. And thus they would be correct to call coming-to-be mixing-together and passing-away dissociating

This is a world of process, not a world of things.

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.

It is precisely the way which is productive - this is the essential thing; becoming is more important than being.

For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables. Methods become exhausted; stimuli no longer work. New problems appear and demand new methods. Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.

You risk becoming a parody of yourself by not innovating.

Evolution is the only thing that exists through time. That is true for computers, or people, or a business. We tend to see things in a static way, and so you see what is. Even in looking at ourselves, what we really are is essentially vessels for our DNA that keeps evolving through time. So seeing that and embracing that reality, and thinking of everything as kind of this perpetual motion machine in which you embrace reality - you don't wish it was different. You realize that it's your puzzle to interact with. You interact with it well, you evolve yourself.

Life is creative. It makes it up as it goes along.

It's important to keep challenging myself and try to come up with some new face every now and again.

Nobody stays in the world that you've seen them in before.

...He is sure that the Bailey he is now is closer to the Bailey he is supposed to be than the Bailey he had been before

Challenge the person you think you are in order to unveil the person you are capable of becoming

Today we continue a never ending journey to bridge the meaning of those words with the realities of our time.

He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.

Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.

Everything is perpetually becoming new.

[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.

Becoming is better than being

An artist is always in the state of becoming.

Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard.... let us not pretend to deny in our philosophy what we know in our hearts to be true.

Everything is gestation and then birthing.