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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
Alfred North Whitehead

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Date of Birth:
February 15, 1861
Date of Death:
December 30, 1947
Nationality:
English
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