The mind celebrates a little triumph whenever it can formulate a truth.
George Santayana, The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress; Vol. IV, Reason in Art (1906).
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Unfortunately, most minds do not recognize the scarcity of discernible truth; they instead mistake for truth an abundance of dogma and the many results of bad inference. An actual truth, even if taken as such rather than rejected for conflict with ill-founded belief, is often seen as nothing special.
1 reply on “George Santayana”
Unfortunately, most minds do not recognize the scarcity of discernible truth; they instead mistake for truth an abundance of dogma and the many results of bad inference. An actual truth, even if taken as such rather than rejected for conflict with ill-founded belief, is often seen as nothing special.