author: Alfred North Whitehead
content: In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed
  clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities
  of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as the
  mode in which human intelligence functions. Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises
  and float on gossamers for deduction.
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