No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

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Whitehead's political views sometimes appear to be libertarian without the label. He believed that "there are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. 1925a.

Alfred North Whitehead OM FRS (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English-American mathematician and philosopher. He co-authored the epochal Principia Mathematica with Russell and later wrote the metaphysical treatise Process and Reality.