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George Santayana - The Sense of Beauty (1896)

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A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel.

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The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence.

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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable: what it is or what it means can never be said.

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Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

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Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.

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In fact, the whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many symbolic, algebraic expressions. They stand for experience; experience which we are incapable of retaining and surveying in its multitudinous immediacy. We should flounder hopelessly, like the animals, did we not keep ourselves afloat and direct our course by these intellectual devices. Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of fact.

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Born: December 16, 1863
Died: September 26, 1952 (aged 88)
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