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For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.
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
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Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
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Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
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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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Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.
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Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia it is by no means a representative of reason.
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If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
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All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.
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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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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
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Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
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A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
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Wisdom comes from disillusionment.
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The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.
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To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.
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The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.
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Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
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America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
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To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
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Fear first created the gods.
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Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.
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