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Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.

Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.

George Santayana
Profound, Doubt, Criticism
"Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies". Book by George Santayana, 1922.

Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.

George Santayana
Real, Intuition, Criticism
George Santayana (2009). “The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress”, p.1058, The Floating Press

To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

George Santayana
Criticism, Facts, Judgment
George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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