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Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

George Santayana
Experience, Conclusion, Draws
George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing

Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.

George Santayana
Experience, Glimpse, Causes
George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2003). “The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1933-1936. Vol. 5. Book 5”, MIT Press

Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.

George Santayana
Experience, Done, Sake
George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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