Kathleen Wright

“Philosophers can never hope finally to formulate these metaphysical first principles. Weakness of insight and deficiencies of language stand in the way inexorably. Words and phrases must be stretched towards a generality foreign to their ordinary usage; and however such elements of language be stabilized as technicalities, they remain metaphors mutely appealing for an imaginative leap.”
― Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality

“the business of Logic is not the analysis of generalities but their mingling.”
― Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas

“We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again, Drawing up from the great roots.”
― Robert Bly, Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems – Five Decades of Powerful American Poetry with Timeless Classics

“Science only deals with half the evidence provided by human experience. It divides the seamless coat — or, to change the metaphor into a happier form, it examines the coat, which is superficial, and neglects the body which is fundamental.”
― Alfred North Whitehead