http://www.gap-system.org/%7Ehistory/Quotations/Whitehead.html
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
Adventures of Ideas, 1933.

http://www.junkfoodforthought.com/quotations/P.htm#PERCEPTION
The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
An Inquiry Into Meaning and Truth, 1940
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais Nin (1903-1977)
The flashlight, seeing light in every direction it looks, concludes there is light everywhere.
Arthur Koestler (1905-1983)