“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.”
— George Santayana
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“To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.”
— George Santayana
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Category: patriotism
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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.”
— George Santayana
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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.”
— George Santayana
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Category: change
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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.”
— George Santayana
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Category: nature
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“The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.”
— George Santayana
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Category: experience
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“Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.”
— George Santayana
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Category: alone
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“Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.”
— George Santayana
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Category: men
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