#us

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

— George Santayana

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If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved. ↗

— George Santayana

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Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. ↗

— George Santayana

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Music is essentially useless, as is life. ↗

— George Santayana

#life #music #useless

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

— George Santayana

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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. ↗

— George Santayana

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The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. ↗

— George Santayana

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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. ↗

— George Santayana

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I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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In normal times, investors should pay more attention to the credit markets because it's the energy by which everything is driven. It's the oil in the engine. ↗

— Rick Santelli

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