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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
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I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
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Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.
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We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
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It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
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The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.
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Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.
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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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Prayer is not a substitute for work it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.
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It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
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Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.
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Spirit itself is not human it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?
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