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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.
         

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


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