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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)

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

Alfred North Whitehead
Inspirational, Truth, Science
Dialogues prologue (1954)

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.

Alfred North Whitehead
Truth, Interesting, Important
Adventures of Ideas pt. 4, ch. 16 (1933)

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.

Alfred North Whitehead
Time, Truth, Majority
Dialogues (1954) (entry for 30 Aug. 1941)

Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.

Alfred North Whitehead
Life, Truth, Math
Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

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

Alfred North Whitehead
Truth, Lying, Heaven

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