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The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it. ↗

— George Santayana

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Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different. ↗

— George Santayana

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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. ↗

— George Santayana

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Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions. ↗

— George Santayana

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The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. ↗

— George Santayana

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Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them. ↗

— George Santayana

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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. ↗

— George Santayana

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Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much. ↗

— George Santayana

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The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. ↗

— George Santayana

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The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism. ↗

— George Santayana

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