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George Santayana Quotes: There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair.
         

There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair.


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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.



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Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.



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Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.



Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.



The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.





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