“There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life; and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality.”

—  Alfred North Whitehead , book Religion in the Making

Religion in the Making (February 1926), Lecture II: "Religion and Dogma".
1920s

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