Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

Nothing to do with anything, something to do with everything.

My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil. Therefore having and not having arise together. Difficult and easy complement each other. Long and short contrast each other. High and low rest upon each other. Voice and sound harmonize each other. Front and back follow one another.

From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.

What is and what is not create each other.

And since the portions of the great and the small are equal in number, so too all things would be in everything. Nor is it possible that they should exist apart, but all things have a portion of everything.

if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist

Form and formless are intertwined in this world. The formless can only be expressed in form and form can only be thought with the formless.

To make one, there must be two.

Instead of separation and division, all distinctions make for a rich diversity to be celebrated for the sake of the unity that underlies them. We are different so that we can know our need of one another.

We're all inseparably part of each other. We all coexist in each other.

The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.

Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials.

There are times when I catch myself believing that there is such a thing as something; which is separate from something else.

The problem comes up because we ask the question in the wrong way. We supposed that solids were one thing and space quite another, or just nothing whatever. Then it appeared that space was no mere nothing, because solids couldn't do without it. But the mistake in the beginning was to think of solids and space as two different things, instead of as two aspects of the same thing. The point is that they are different but inseparable, like the front end and the rear end of a cat. Cut them apart, and the cat dies.

Keep reminding yourself of the way things are connected, of great relatedness. All things are implicated in one another and in sympathy with each other. This event is the consequence of some other one. Things push and pull on each other, and breathe together, and are ONE.

You're my existence. I'm yours

I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.

Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.

There is but one ultimate Power. This Power is to each one what he is to it.