No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of all rationality. - Alfred North Whitehead

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment in recognition of the pattern.

In so far as your metaphysical beliefs are implicit, you vaguely interpret the past on the lines of the present. But when it comes to the primary metaphysical data, the world of which you are immediately conscious is the whole datum.

The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.