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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
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Philosopher
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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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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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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 there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
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The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, makes it alike impressive.
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The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
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I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.
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Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.
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The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.
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In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.
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It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.
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Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the source of the conflicts of religion with science and the vain and bitter controversies of sects it is also the cause of the impurity and incoherence of religion in the soul.
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The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.
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Music is essentially useless, as is life.
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What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?
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We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.
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A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.
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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
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Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
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