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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.
Life and Living
Paul Santaguida

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A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
Patriotism
George Santayana

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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
Proverbs
George Santayana

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America is a young country with an old mentality.
America
George Santayana

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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
Beauty
George Santayana

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.
Cities and City Life
George Santayana

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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
Chaos
George Santayana

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Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
Character
George Santayana

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Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
Emotions
George Santayana

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Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
Fanatics and Fanaticism
George Santayana

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Habit is stronger than reason.
Habit
George Santayana

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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
History and Historians
George Santayana

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Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
Intolerance
George Santayana

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It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
Advantage
George Santayana

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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
Saints
George Santayana

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Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
Knowledge
George Santayana

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Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.
Potential
George Santayana

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Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.
Sacrifice
George Santayana

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Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
Dignity
George Santayana

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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
Dignity
George Santayana

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Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
Prayer
George Santayana

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Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
Sanity
George Santayana

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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
Body
George Santayana

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The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
Disease
George Santayana

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The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
Fame
George Santayana

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun