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The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence.
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To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
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Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.
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We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.
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What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.
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Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.
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Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.
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It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man’s wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility.
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Artists have no less talents than ever; their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.
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Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás (1863-1952), known as George Santayana, was born in Madrid, Spain, but spent most of his life in the United States and Europe. He was a prominent philosopher, poet, and literary critic. Educated at Harvard, Santayana became an influential figure in American thought, though often critical of its pragmatic tendencies. His philosophy, known as naturalism, sought to explain reality without recourse to supernatural causes. Notable works include "The Sense of Beauty," "The Life of Reason," and "Persons and Places." His lyrical prose and his reflections on culture, religion, and the human condition continue to be studied. He died in Rome, Italy.