The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations. ✨ George Santayana…

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The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations. ✨ George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). The The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two, p.20, MIT Press
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The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them ✨ George Santayana (2015). The Life of Reason: Human Understanding, … ▶
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The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations. ✨ George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). The The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two, p.20, MIT Press

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