George Santayana

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To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world

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

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love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers

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We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what

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The worship of power is an old religion