Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no …

George Santayana
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Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress. ✨ George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One, p.130, MIT Press
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