Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess wh…

George Santayana
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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 of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, p.48, MIT Press
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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 of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, p.48, MIT Press

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