3 Alfred North Whitehead Quotes on Reason

Alfred North Whitehead quotes on reason

9. Philosophy, in one of its functions, is the critic of cosmologies. It is its function to harmonise, refashion, and justify divergent intuitions as to the nature of things. It has to insist on the scrutiny of the ultimate ideas, and on the retention of the whole of the evidence in shaping our cosmological scheme. Its business is to render explicit, and - so far as may be - efficient, a process which otherwise is unconsciously performed without rational tests.

27. Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.

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