Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

The doctrines of Christian theology are a rhapsody of feigned and ill-invented nonsense

No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom.

There is no heaven and there is no hell. They are not geographical, they are part of your psychology. They are psychological. To live the life of spontaneity, truth, love, beauty is to live in heaven. To live the life of hypocrisy, lies, compromises,to live according to others, is to live in hell. To live in freedom is heaven, and to live in subjection is hell.

Lies don't matter, ... There's no merit to it. It's kind of hard to entertain foolishness when it has no merit.

It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.

Nonsense is nonsense whether it rhymes or not, just as bad half-pennies are good for nothing whether they jingle or lie quiet.

If you're gonna write, for God in heaven's sake, try to get naked. Try to write the truth. Try to get underneath all the sham, all the excuses, all the lies that you've been told.

I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.

The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.

I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same since, nor will we ever be, for LSD demonstrated, even to skeptics, that the mansions of heaven and gardens of paradise lie within each and all of us.

There always comes a point beyond which lying becomes counterproductive. This point is reached when the audience to which the lies are addressed is forced to disregard altogether the distinguishing line between truth and falsehood in order to be able to survive.

Novelists tell that piece of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie.

Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.

I'll never speak to another person without telling the truth. I've been a cruel man in my time, I've been a devious man in my time, like everybody else. I've told lies in my time. But I've seen enough suffering to experiment with the truth.

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.

What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

If Doctor Nolan asked me for the matches, I would say that I'd thought they were made of candy and had eaten them.

Much truth is spoken, that more may be concealed.

I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.

In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.

There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.