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A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.
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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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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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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What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
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Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.
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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.
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The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
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There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
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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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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
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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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An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
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The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
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