Quotes by George Santayana
Sanity is madness put to good uses.
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Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that "a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion." At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them.
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Love is only half the illusion the lover, but not his love, is deceived.
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One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
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The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
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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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The Bible is literature, not dogma.
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It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
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A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
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I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all
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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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Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
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