Advantage Quote by George Santayana

“Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light.”

George Santayana

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Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.

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The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

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Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

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To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

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“The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably.”

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

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Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being…

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

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Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had…

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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

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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…

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