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«Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
lamentable, sanction, sanctioned, sanctions
«Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.»
«The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.»
«Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.»
«Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
chastity, readily, relinquished, skepticism
«Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
enabling, fortified, fortifies, fortifying, human soul, more or less, myth, proposes, the help
«The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
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re-create, re-created, recreate, recreates, recreating
«There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.»
«The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
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aspersion, aspersions, cast on, common man, Philosophy of, resents, Strangers
«Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.»
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