The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.

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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.

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Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.

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Culture is on the horns of this dilemma if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.

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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

George Santayana in Life of Reason (1905)
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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

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