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«There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.»
«Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
fanaticism, redouble, redoubled, redoubling
«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 accepte»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
fugitive, fugitives, imaginative, miscellaneous, satisfies
«Work and love -- these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled.»
«Reason and happiness are like other flowers -- they wither when plucked.»
«The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.»
«That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.»
«Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
Boston, nursery, principals, trifles
«The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.»
«If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.»
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