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Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
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The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.
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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
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To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.
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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
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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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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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One real world is enough.
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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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Oaths are the fossils of piety.
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If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.
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The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
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It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given the best morsel, to be remembered, to be praised, to be obeyed blindly and punctiliously - these have been thought points of honor with the gods.
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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the better.
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A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.
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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 mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.
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Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
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Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.
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Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
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