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Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
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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To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.
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Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.
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To fight is a radical instinct if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions.
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Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
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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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A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
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O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart. Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies To trust the soul's invincible surmise Was all his science and his only art.
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It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
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The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all they express merely physical antipathies.
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