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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.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
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Jorge Augustín Nicolás 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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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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Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.
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Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said.
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I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness.
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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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What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.
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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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