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" Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. "
George Santayana
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" To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say. "
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" Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. "
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" 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. "
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" Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. "
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" The Bible is literature, not dogma. "
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" My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. "
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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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" To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. "
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" Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. "
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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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" The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others. "
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" It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. "
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" The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. "
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" A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. "
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" The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape. "
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" The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him. "
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" The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. "
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" A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world. "
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" Oaths are the fossils of piety. "
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" The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy. "
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" A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud. "
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" A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. "
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" Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end. "
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" The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients. "
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