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The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
George Santayana
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Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
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Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.
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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
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We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.
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There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
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Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.
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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
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Music is essentially useless, as is life.
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In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.
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Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.
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When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who understands himself under the form of eternity knows the quality that eternally belongs to him, and knows that he cannot wholly die, even if he would, for when the movement of his life is over, the truth of his life remains.
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
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Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.
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A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
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