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True Quotes by George Santayana
- It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
- People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.
- When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who understands himself under…
- The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.
- At best, the true philosopher can fulfil his mission very imperfectly, which is to pilot himself, or at most a few voluntary companions who may…
- What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.
- Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
- That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
- My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be…
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