In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

George Santayana
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In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
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Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. ✨ George Santayana (2003). The Letters of George Santayana, p.338, MIT Press
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. ✨ George Santayana (2011). The Life … ▶
Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate. ✨ George Santayana (2015). The Life of Reason: Human Understanding, p.67, 谷月社
Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses. ✨ George Santayana (1945). The Middle Span

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