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Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
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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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A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world and when not too much starved or thwarted by circumstances, it finds all things vivid and comic. Life is free play fundamentally and would like to be free play altogether.
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America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
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The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.
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Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.
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The earth has music for those who listen.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.
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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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Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.
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Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
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Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.
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The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.
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The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.
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The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.... If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit.
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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 quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence
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Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.
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American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.
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