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

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

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About George Santayana

Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known in English as George Santayana (16 December 1863 in Madrid, Spain – 26 September 1952 in Rome, Italy) was a Spanish-American philosopher, essayist, poet and novelist.

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Alternative Names: Jorge Santayana Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás
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