It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

Quote by George Santayana

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All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore,...

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore,...

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides...

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides...

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous in speculation, as in politics, to borrow them...

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous in speculation, as in politics, to borrow them...

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private...

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private...

The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and...

The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and...

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them...

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them...

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency...

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency...

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part...

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part...

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them

Sanity is madness put to good use.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts...

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts...