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There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

Alfred North Whitehead
Truth, Lying, Half
Dialogues prologue (1954)

The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.

Alfred North Whitehead
Plato, Lying, Christianity
1938 Adventures of Ideas.

Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.

Alfred North Whitehead
Truth, Lying, Heaven

Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.

Alfred North Whitehead
Art, Lying, Sunset

There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life; and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality.

Alfred North Whitehead
Lying, Quality, Facts
Alfred North Whitehead (2011). “Religion in the Making”, p.68, Cambridge University Press

The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader.

Alfred North Whitehead
Lying, Hands, Leader
Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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