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Everything] ideal has a natural basis and everything natural an ideal development.
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The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
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Every moment celebrates obsequies over the virtues of its predecessor.
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To know how just a cause we have for grieving is already a consolation.
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George Santayana |
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The mind celebrates a little triumph whenever it can formulate a truth.
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Art like life should be free, since both are experimental.
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George Santayana |
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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
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George Santayana |
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The Bible is literature, not dogma.
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George Santayana |
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To covet truth is a very distinguished passion.
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George Santayana |
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Our dignity is not in what we do, but in what we understand.
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George Santayana |
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To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.
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George Santayana |
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Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.
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George Santayana |
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The pint would call the quart a dualist, if you tried to pour the quart into him.
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George Santayana |
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Our dignity is not in what we do, but in what we understand. The whole world is doing things.
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George Santayana |
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The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
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George Santayana |
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England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors.
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George Santayana |
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
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George Santayana |
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The living have never shown me how to live.
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George Santayana |
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Philosophers are as jealous as women. Each wants a monopoly of praise.
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George Santayana |
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The soul, too, has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit.
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George Santayana |
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The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
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George Santayana |
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Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
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George Santayana |
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Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.
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George Santayana |
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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
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George Santayana |
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The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.
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