“Distrust all generalizations: stick to the concrete.”

— Epifanio de los Santos

As quoted in “Don Pañong – Genius" by A.V.H. Hartendorp in Philippine Magazine (September 1929), p. 211.
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Context: (... philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature.) Distrust all generalizations: stick to the concrete.

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Filipino politician 1871–1928

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