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Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. (George Santayana)
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. View quote
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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. View quote
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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. View quote
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. View quote
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To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation to delude one's self is the romantic. View quote
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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. View quote
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History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory. View quote
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Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator. View quote
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Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it. View quote
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Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies. (George Santayana)
Memory... is an internal rumor. View quote
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The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard. View quote
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Although a poem be not made by counting of syllables upon the fingers, yet "numbers" is the most poetical synonym we have for verse, and "measure" the most significant equivalent for beauty, for goodness, and perhaps even for truth. Those early and profound philosophers, the followers of Pythagoras, saw the essence of all things in number, and it was by weight, measure, and number, as we read in the Bible, that the Creator first brought Nature out of the void. View quote
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Every moment celebrates obsequies over the virtues of its predecessor. View quote
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The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour. View quote
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No doubt the spirit or energy of the world is what is acting in us, as the sea is what rises in every little wave; but it passes through us, and cry out as we may, it will move on. Our privilege is to have perceived it as it moves. View quote
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To the mind of the ancients, who knew something of such matters, liberty and prosperity seemed hardly compatible, yet modern liberalism wants them together. View quote
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Liberalism has merely cleared a field in which every soul and every corporate interest may fight with every other for domination. Whoever is victorious in this struggle will make an end of liberalism; and the new order, which will deem itself saved, will have to defend itself in the following age against a new crop of rebels. View quote
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In solitude it is possible to love mankind; in the world, for one who knows the world, there can be nothing but secret or open war. View quote
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The working of great administrations is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self-interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought. (George Santayana)
Never since the heroic days of Greece has the world had such a sweet, just, boyish master. View quote
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At midday the daily food of all Spaniards was the puchero or cocido, as the dish is really called which the foreigners call pot-pourri or olla podrida. This contains principally yellow chick-peas, with a little bacon, some potatoes or other vegetables and normally also small pieces of beef or sausage, all boiled in one pot at a very slow fire; the liquid of the same makes the substantial broth that is served first. View quote
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The mind celebrates a little triumph whenever it can formulate a truth. View quote
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To know how just a cause we have for grieving is already a consolation. View quote
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