| Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman. |
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- George Santayana |
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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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- George Santayana |
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| Theory helps us bear our ignorance of facts. |
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- George Santayana |
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| The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. |
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- George Santayana |
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| Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. |
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- George Santayana |
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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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- George Santayana |
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| Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. |
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- George Santayana |
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| Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. |
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- George Santayana |
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| Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions. |
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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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| Our character… is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiney is likely to be. |
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- George Santayana |
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| Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be. |
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- George Santayana |
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| To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. |
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- George Santayana |
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| To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. |
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- George Santayana |
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| One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. |
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- George Santayana |
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| Depression is rage spread thin. |
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- George Santayana |
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| Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge. |
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- George Santayana |
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| An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. |
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- George Santayana |
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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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- George Santayana |
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| I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. |
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- George Santayana |
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