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  • In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions. Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

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    Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

  • It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.

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    Alfred North Whitehead (2007). “The Concept of Nature”, p.73, Cosimo, Inc.
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Alfred North Whitehead

  • Born: February 15, 1861
  • Died: December 30, 1947
  • Occupation: Mathematician
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