"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 to the mode in which human intelligence functions."
Alfred North Whitehead: Adventures of IdeasĀ (found in the medium is the MASSAGE)
Noah, we were both reading Alfred North Whitehead at the same moment!
(Source: noahcates)