What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

More from Alfred North Whitehead

• Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
• In philosophical discussion, the merest hint of dogmatic certainty as to finality of statement is an exhibition of folly.
• We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.