Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism …

George Santayana
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Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them. ✨ George Santayana (2015). Character and Opinion in the United States, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing
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