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> [Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/each-religion-by-the-help-of-more-or-less-myth-which-it-takes-more-or/)

[George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/)

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## More by George Santayana

> [Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/perhaps-the-universe-is-nothing-but-an-equilibrium-of-idiocies/)

[George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/)

> [The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/the-combative-instinct-is-a-savage-prompting-by-which-one-man-s-good/)

[George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/)

> [Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/sanctity-and-genius-are-as-rebellious-as-vice/)

[George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/)

> [To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/to-attempt-to-be-religious-without-practicing-a-specific-religion-is/)

[George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/)

> [“The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/the-contemporary-world-has-turned-its-back-on-the-attempt-and-even-on/)

[George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/)

> [The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/the-pride-of-the-artisan-in-his-art-and-its-uses-is-pride-in-himself/)

[George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/)

> [If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/if-pain-could-have-cured-us-we-should-long-ago-have-been-saved/)

[George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/)

> [Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/towers-in-a-modern-town-are-a-frill-and-a-survival-they-seem-like-the/)

[George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/)

> [Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/wealth-religion-military-victory-have-more-rhetorical-than/)

[George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/)

> [Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/whoever-it-was-who-searched-the-heavens-with-a-telescope-and-found-no/)

[George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/)

> [It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/it-is-easier-to-make-a-saint-out-of-a-libertine-than-out-of-a-prig/)

[George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/)

> [Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/experience-is-a-mere-whiff-or-rumble-produced-by-enormously-complex/)

[George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/)

> [Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/miracles-are-propitious-accidents-the-natural-causes-of-which-are-too/)

[George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/)

> [Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/memory-itself-is-an-internal-rumour-and-when-to-this-hearsay-within/)

[George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/)

> [Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/familiarity-breeds-contempt-only-when-it-breeds-inattention/)

[George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/)

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