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Quote by George Santayana
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than effic

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

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Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. – George Santayana

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The degree in which a poets imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. – George Santayana

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Imagination
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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age. – George Santayana

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There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand. – Friedrich Durrenmatt

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Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it. РDiderot, Pens̩es philosophiques, 1746

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Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom – that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself. – David Hilbert

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