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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
Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.