Famous Quotes | A conceived thing is doubly a...

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. - George Santayana
Attribution: George Santayana (1863–1952), Spanish-born U.S. philosopher, poet. The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress, pt. 1, ch. 6, Scribner (1906).

Categories: Concepts, Ideas, Philosopher

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