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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
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I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness.
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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
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... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives are mortal if our soul is not and the sentiment which reconciled Lucretius to death is as much needed if we are to face many deaths, as if we are to face only one.
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To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.
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Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
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Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.
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Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.
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The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.
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America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
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One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of feeling, without any new evidence or new arguments. We do not nowadays refute our predecessors, we pleasantly bid them good-bye.
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The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.
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