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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.


George Santayana

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GEORGE SANTAYANA Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: people are frien...
GEORGE SANTAYANA It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The g...
GEORGE SANTAYANA The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Criticism surprises the soul in the arms of convention.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it
GEORGE SANTAYANA Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs
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