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Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
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Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.
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Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.
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Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.
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Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.
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Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one’s fine feelings, on one's indomitable optimism and trust in life.
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Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
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Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.
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Reason and happiness are like other flowers— they wither when plucked.
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Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás (1863-1952), known as George Santayana, was born in Madrid, Spain, but spent most of his life in the United States and Europe. He was a prominent philosopher, poet, and literary critic. Educated at Harvard, Santayana became an influential figure in American thought, though often critical of its pragmatic tendencies. His philosophy, known as naturalism, sought to explain reality without recourse to supernatural causes. Notable works include "The Sense of Beauty," "The Life of Reason," and "Persons and Places." His lyrical prose and his reflections on culture, religion, and the human condition continue to be studied. He died in Rome, Italy.