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Description: Baruch Spinoza quote: Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also.

Description: Baruch Spinoza quote: Veritas norma sui et falsi est.

Description: Baruch Spinoza quote: I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate human actions, but to understand them.

Description: Baruch Spinoza quote: God's will is eternal, and has never been indifferent; hence... the world is a necessary effect of the divine nature.

Description: Baruch Spinoza quote: Truth is a standard both of itself and of falsity

Description: George Santayana quote: I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

Description: George Santayana quote: 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 servants of their human interests.

Description: George Santayana quote: The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

Description: George Santayana quote: It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation.

Description: George Santayana quote: There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Description: George Santayana quote: The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

Description: George Santayana quote: A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Description: George Santayana quote: Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

Description: George Santayana quote: The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

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

Description: George Santayana quote: History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory. It might almost be said to be no science at all, if memory and faith in memory were not what science necessarily rest on. In order to sift evidence we must rely on some witness, and we must trust experience before we proceed to expand it. The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience ...

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

Description: George Santayana quote: Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.

Description: George Santayana quote: What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude: the aims of friendship, religion, science, and art.

Description: George Santayana quote: To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love. (dark text)

Description: George Santayana quote: That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

Description: George Santayana quote: The living have never shown me how to live.

Description: George Santayana quote: Our dignity is not in what we do, but in what we understand.

Description: George Santayana quote: To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

Description: George Santayana quote: To covet truth is a very distinguished passion.

Description: George Santayana quote: 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.

Description: George Santayana quote: Art like life should be free, since both are experimental.

Description: George Santayana quote: To know how just a cause we have for grieving is already a consolation.

Description: George Santayana quote: Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continual comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.

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

Description: Jean de La Fontaine: Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Description: Jean de La Fontaine: Beware, as long as you live, of judging people by appearances.

Description: Jean de La Fontaine: Garde-toi, tant que tu vivras, De juger les gens sur la mine.

Description: Jean de La Fontaine: Death never taketh by surprise The well-prepared, to wit, the wise - They knowing of themselves the time To meditate the final change of clime.

Description: Jean de La Fontaine: Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami; Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.

Description: Jean de La Fontaine: A foolish friend may cause more woe Than could, indeed, the wisest foe.