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The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One

Book by George Santayana · 8 quotes · Ifs, Mind, Ideas

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The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One Quotes

“A conceived thing is doubly a product of mind, more a product of mind, if you will, than an idea, since ideas arise, so to speak,by the mind's inertia and conceptions of things by its activity. Ideas are mental sediment; conceived things are mental growths.”

“Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.”