It is the ideal of speculative philosophy that its fundamental notions shall not seem capable of abstraction from each other. In other words, it is p… - Alfred North Whitehead

it is presupposed that no entity can be conceived in complete abstraction from the system of the universe, and that it is the business of speculative philosophy to exhibit this truth. This character is its coherence.

We cannot think first and act afterwards. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only guide it by taking thought.

It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.

The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance.