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It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Alfred North Whitehead
Age: 86 †
Born: 1861
Born: February 15
Died: 1947
Died: December 30
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No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.
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Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.
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Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?
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The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
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Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.
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