Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverabl…

George Santayana
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Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods. ✨ George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two, p.27, MIT Press
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