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Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.
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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There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.
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The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.
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Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.
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Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.
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The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.
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The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.
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Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the final aim of philosophy, the flux of things is one ultimate generalization around which we must weave our philosophical system.
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One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
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A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.
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Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.
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