Alfred North Whitehead Quotes About Truth
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Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.
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I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.
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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.
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It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.
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There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.
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There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
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Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.
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Alfred North Whitehead
- Born: February 15, 1861
- Died: December 30, 1947
- Occupation: Mathematician
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